Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Who, Dr.

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

Bruce Barton

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Jameson, Anna

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Robert Byrne

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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

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

37.

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

Groucho Marx

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Mead, Margaret

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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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

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

Plomp, John

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

John Gray

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The child is the father of the man.