Motivational Quotes

Children

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

- Polanski, Roman

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

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

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

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Sam Levenson

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Dick Cavett

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Norman Douglas

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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Ovid

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Chase, Alexander

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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.