Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Children

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Chase, Alexander

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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.

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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A child is fed with milk and praise.