Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dick Cavett

Best Quotes about Children

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

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

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

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

10.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

It takes three to make a child.

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

12.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

13.

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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Bruce Barton

22.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

23.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Jones, Franklin P.

27.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

28.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Who, Dr.

36.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

45.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas