Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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

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

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

King Edward VIII

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

22.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mead, Margaret

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Moses, Robert

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Robert Byrne

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

41.

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

42.

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

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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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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.

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

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria