Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Daniel Raeburn

Best Quotes about Children

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

Plomp, John

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

John J. Plomp

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Wiesel, Elie

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Ovid

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

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

10.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

17.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Freud, Sigmund