Motivational Quotes

Children

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Dogen

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

18.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

19.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Plomp, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

33.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

34.

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

Edwards, Harry

35.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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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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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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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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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

45.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

46.

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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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

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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