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

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Jameson, Anna

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

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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

Proverb

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Plomp, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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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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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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