Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dick Cavett

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Wilmot, John

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Chase, Alexander

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

11.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

14.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

19.

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

20.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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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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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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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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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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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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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

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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

39.

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

40.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

42.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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