Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Bible

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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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.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Daniel Raeburn

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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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 see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Capp, Al

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

Bruce Barton

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Robert Orben

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore