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

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

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

King Edward VIII

11.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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

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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Orben

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Capp, Al

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

Ovid

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Baldwin, James