Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Plomp, John

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Sam Levenson

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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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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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ovid

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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 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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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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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 have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.