Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edwards, Harry

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

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

Wilmot, John

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Dick Cavett

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

Capp, Al

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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

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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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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

36.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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

39.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Robert Orben

44.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Proverb