Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grand children.

- Vidal, Gore

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wiesel, Elie

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Robert Orben

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

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Morley, Christopher

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Robert Byrne

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

15.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Who, Dr.

18.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Moustakas, Clark

21.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

22.

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

Proverb, English

23.

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

Ball, Lucille

24.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

25.

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

30.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

31.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

33.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

34.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

38.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

40.

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

Kraus, Karl

41.

It takes three to make a child.

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

42.

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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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

44.

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

Fran Lebowitz

45.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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