Motivational Quotes

Children

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bible

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

Picasso, Pablo

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Dick Cavett

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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Ovid

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Plomp, John

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hulbert, Harold

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

John J. Plomp

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Churchill, Winston

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.