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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Tauscher, Stacia

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Plomp, John

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

10.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

11.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

14.

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

Robert Orben

15.

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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

18.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

19.

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

Hulbert, Harold

20.

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

21.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

22.

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

Robert Orben

23.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

24.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

27.

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

Wilmot, John

30.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

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

Groucho Marx

32.

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

33.

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

Robert Byrne

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

Rabbinical Saying

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

37.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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

40.

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

41.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

42.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

43.

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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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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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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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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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

48.

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

Bible

49.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb