Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Sam Levenson

10.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

12.

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

Daniel Raeburn

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Hulbert, Harold

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

25.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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

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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

29.

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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

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

Capp, Al

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lewin, Roger

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

45.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.