Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

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

Peter Ustinov

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

11.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

15.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

16.

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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Baldwin, James

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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

25.

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

Plomp, John

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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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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

30.

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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

32.

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

Dick Cavett

33.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

37.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Buck, Pearl S.

40.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

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

Mary MacCracken

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

50.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John