Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Nash, Ogden

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Groucho Marx

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Norman Douglas

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Ruskin, John

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

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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

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

34.

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

Morley, Christopher

35.

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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Edwards, Harry

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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.

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Dick Cavett

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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