Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

- Pollok, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Robert Byrne

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Lewin, Roger

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Edwards, Harry

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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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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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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

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

Norman Douglas