Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Who, Dr.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

10.

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

John J. Plomp

11.

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

12.

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

Peter Ustinov

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

15.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

17.

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

Plomp, John

18.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

19.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

21.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

22.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

25.

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

26.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

30.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

31.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

32.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

33.

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

Edwards, Harry

34.

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

35.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

37.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Groucho Marx

40.

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

Wiesel, Elie

41.

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

Fran Lebowitz

42.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Ruskin, John

45.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jameson, Anna

50.

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