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

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

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

10.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

11.

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

Capp, Al

12.

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

Proverb

13.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Daniel Raeburn

16.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

17.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

18.

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

Morley, Christopher

19.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

20.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

25.

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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Plomp, John

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Epictetus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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 are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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