Motivational Quotes

Children

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Jameson, Anna

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

John Gray

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

10.

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

Dick Cavett

11.

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

Plomp, John

12.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Capp, Al

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Ball, Lucille

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Robert Orben

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

30.

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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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, English

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Chase, Alexander

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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