Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Edwards, Harry

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dick Cavett

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

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

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

John Gray

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

Freud, Sigmund

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

10.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

16.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

24.

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

Dogen

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

31.

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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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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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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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

41.

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.

42.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Plomp, John

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ruskin, John

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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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