Motivational Quotes

Children

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

- Lair, Dr. Jess

Best Quotes about Children

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

Moses, Robert

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

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

Mead, Margaret

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ovid

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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

12.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Groucho Marx

18.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Norman Douglas

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

William Shakespeare

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David