Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

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

Wilmot, John

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

10.

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

Sam Levenson

11.

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

12.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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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 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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

32.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

33.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

37.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

39.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Dick Cavett

42.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

44.

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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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

49.

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

Groucho Marx

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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