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The child is the father of the man.
- Wordsworth, William
Children Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Children

1.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Waitley, Denis

2.
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson

3.
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
Auden, W. H.

4.
Children are the keys of paradise.
Stoddard, Richard Henry

5.
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold

6.
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope, Alexander

7.
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Morley, Christopher

9.
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Bachelard, Gaston

10.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Dyer, Wayne

11.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Wiesel, Elie

12.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.
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

14.
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Lair, Dr. Jess

15.
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

16.
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

17.
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

18.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Wilde, Oscar

19.
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

20.
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

21.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx

22.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson

23.
Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales

24.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Jones, Franklin P.

25.
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

26.
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

27.
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Canetti, Elias

28.
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

29.
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

30.
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

31.
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

32.
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

33.
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.

34.
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Updike, John

35.
Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

36.
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Proverb, English

37.
Never have children, only grand children.
Vidal, Gore

38.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal

39.
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Moses, Robert

40.
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Mead, Margaret

42.
What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

43.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Abbott, Lyman

44.
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

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

47.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Bombeck, Erma

48.
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

49.
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

50.
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII


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