Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Children

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

King Edward VIII

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Robert Orben

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

10.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

11.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

12.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

19.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

24.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

25.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bible

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

John J. Plomp

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

Watts, Isaac

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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

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

Epictetus

34.

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

Plomp, John

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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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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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

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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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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.

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Dorothy Parker