Motivational Quotes

Children

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette