Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pope, Alexander

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

11.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

12.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

13.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

14.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

15.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

16.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

17.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

18.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

21.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rich, Adrienne

27.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

32.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

44.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

45.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.