Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

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

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Kraus, Karl

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

10.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

11.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

15.

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

John Gray

16.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

19.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

20.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Chase, Alexander

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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

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Who, Dr.

28.

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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Torrie, Alfred

34.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

41.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Oscar Wilde