Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Robert Orben

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

Capp, Al

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Picasso, Pablo

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

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

Who, Dr.

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Lewin, Roger

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Norman Douglas

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

Moses, Robert

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Groucho Marx

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Sam Levenson

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna