Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Children

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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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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

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Dogen

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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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 child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

John Gray