Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Edwards, Harry

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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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

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Ball, Lucille

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Jones, Franklin P.

32.

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

Epictetus

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Who, Dr.

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Dick Cavett

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary