Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Pope, Alexander

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

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

11.

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

Bruce Barton

12.

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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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

16.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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

18.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Epictetus

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

John J. Plomp

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

25.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

26.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

27.

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

Proverb, English

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

31.

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

Dick Cavett

32.

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

Morley, Christopher

33.

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

Ovid

34.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Jones, Franklin P.

36.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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