Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Ovid

10.

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

Hulbert, Harold

11.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

12.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

13.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

14.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

15.

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

Morley, Christopher

16.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

17.

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

Gray, Thomas

18.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

19.

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

20.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

25.

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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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

28.

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

29.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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

33.

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

Norman Douglas

34.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Edwards, Harry

36.

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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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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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

39.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Fran Lebowitz

47.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

48.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

49.

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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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