Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Moses, Robert

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

King Edward VIII

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

John J. Plomp

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Robert Orben

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Edwards, Harry

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Lewin, Roger

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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 all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Groucho Marx

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

Dick Cavett

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Robert Orben

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.