Motivational Quotes

Children

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Chase, Alexander

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Sam Levenson

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Norman Douglas

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

Ovid

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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

Dick Cavett

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Proverb

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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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

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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Never have children, only grand children.