Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

John J. Plomp

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Plomp, John

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Groucho Marx

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Ovid

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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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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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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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

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Norman Douglas

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Phyllis Diller

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig