Motivational Quotes

Children

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

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

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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

Montessori, Maria

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Baldwin, James

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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

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

Proverb, English

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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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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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Epictetus

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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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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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

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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