Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Who, Dr.

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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

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

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

10.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

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

12.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

13.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Nash, Ogden

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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 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

21.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Proverb, English

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

35.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Jameson, Anna

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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

43.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

44.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Dorothy Parker

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