Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilmot, John

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

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

Groucho Marx

11.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

12.

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

13.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

15.

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

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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.

17.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

18.

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

19.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

20.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

25.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

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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

34.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

35.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

38.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

40.

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

41.

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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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

43.

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

44.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

49.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

50.

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