Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Waitley, Denis

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Groucho Marx

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

John J. Plomp

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Ruskin, John

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Robert Byrne

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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 takes three to make a child.

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

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