Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb, English

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

Peter Ustinov

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Who, Dr.

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

Sam Levenson

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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

Moses, Robert

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

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