Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Children

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Norman Douglas

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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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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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

John J. Plomp

22.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Robert Orben

25.

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's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

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

Eliot, George

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Who, Dr.

43.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

45.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

49.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Bruce Barton