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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Churchill, Winston

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

10.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

11.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

12.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

13.

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

14.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lewin, Roger

18.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

19.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Chase, Alexander

32.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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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

36.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

37.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wiesel, Elie

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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 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.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

47.

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

Jameson, Anna

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty