Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Hulbert, Harold

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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

11.

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

Lewin, Roger

12.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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

24.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Plomp, John

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

Ruskin, John

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Jameson, Anna

33.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Chase, Alexander

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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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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 thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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