Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Capp, Al

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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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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Groucho Marx

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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 fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Pope, Alexander

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Robert Orben

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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 might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Eliot, George

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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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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

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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

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

Robert Orben

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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