Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

It takes three to make a child.

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

10.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

11.

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

Hulbert, Harold

12.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

13.

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

Oscar Wilde

14.

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

15.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

16.

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

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

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

Abbott, Lyman

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Robert Orben

23.

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

John J. Plomp

24.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

26.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

28.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

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

31.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

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

35.

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

Edwards, Harry

36.

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

Bible

37.

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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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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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

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

Phyllis Diller

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

45.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

48.

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

Mead, Margaret

49.

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

Moses, Robert

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