Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

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

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Morley, Christopher

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

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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

11.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

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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

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

17.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Oscar Wilde

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Moses, Robert

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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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Peter Ustinov

32.

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

33.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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It takes three to make a child.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Hunt, Leigh

37.

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

William Shakespeare

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Hulbert, Harold

40.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Bruce Barton

43.

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

Wilmot, John

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

Ovid

45.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.