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

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

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

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

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

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

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Montessori, Maria

11.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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 also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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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.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

22.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Angelou, Maya

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Robert Orben

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

Ovid

30.

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

Dick Cavett

31.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Epictetus

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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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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

43.

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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden