Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dogen

Best Quotes about Children

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

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

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Rabbinical Saying

15.

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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

17.

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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

19.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

22.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

23.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

24.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

25.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

26.

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

Morley, Christopher

27.

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

Mary MacCracken

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

Proverb, English

30.

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

Jameson, Anna

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

33.

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

Groucho Marx

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

36.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

38.

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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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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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 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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

48.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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