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

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

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

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Who, Dr.

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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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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

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

Robert Orben

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Moses, Robert

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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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

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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The child is the father of the man.