Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Mead, Margaret

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb

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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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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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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 at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

43.

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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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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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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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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