Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Nash, Ogden

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Moustakas, Clark

10.

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

Dick Cavett

11.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

16.

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

John Gray

21.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Angelou, Maya

23.

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

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Montessori, Maria

28.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

31.

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

32.

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

Ovid

35.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Robert Orben

41.

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

John J. Plomp

42.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Groucho Marx

45.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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

49.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Proverb