Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about 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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

10.

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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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

12.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

14.

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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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

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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

18.

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

Morley, Christopher

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Proverb, English

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Tauscher, Stacia

25.

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

Norman Douglas

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

30.

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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

33.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

35.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.