Motivational Quotes

Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Children

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, English

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

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

King Edward VIII

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

Capp, Al

15.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

17.

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

18.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

19.

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

Lewin, Roger

20.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

21.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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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

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

Chase, Alexander

28.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

29.

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

Who, Dr.

30.

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

Plomp, John

31.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

36.

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

Groucho Marx

37.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

38.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

42.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

43.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

49.

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

Sam Levenson

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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