Motivational Quotes

Children

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

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

Pope, Alexander

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robert Orben

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Baldwin, James

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

Dick Cavett

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It takes three to make a child.

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

28.

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

John Gray

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Groucho Marx

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

Jameson, Anna

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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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

John J. Plomp

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert