Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hulbert, Harold

Best Quotes about Children

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ruskin, John

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

10.

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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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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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

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Dogen

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

Nash, Ogden

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

17.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

20.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

22.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

26.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

32.

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

Morley, Christopher

33.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

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

Robert Byrne

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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