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

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Bruce Barton

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lawana Blackwell

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

10.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Oscar Wilde

16.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

17.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

18.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

21.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

23.

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

24.

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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

26.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

29.

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

30.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

Robert Orben

33.

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

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

35.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

40.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

41.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

42.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

43.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

44.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

45.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

46.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

48.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

49.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold