Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, English

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ruskin, John

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

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

10.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

11.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

12.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Wilmot, John

15.

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

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

John Gray

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

18.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

19.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

20.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Phyllis Diller

25.

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

Moses, Robert

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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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

30.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

31.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

42.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Angelou, Maya

44.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

45.

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

Watts, Isaac

46.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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

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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