Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Children

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

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Freud, Sigmund

10.

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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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

14.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Nash, Ogden

19.

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

Chase, Alexander

20.

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

21.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

22.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

23.

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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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

25.

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

Dick Cavett

26.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

27.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

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

Norman Douglas

29.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

30.

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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

32.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

33.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

35.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

39.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

40.

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

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lewin, Roger

43.

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

Dogen

44.

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

William Shakespeare

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