Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Children

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dick Cavett

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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 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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Lois McMaster Bujold