Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Rabbinical Saying

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb, English

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Groucho Marx

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

Hunt, Leigh

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

10.

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

Jameson, Anna

11.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

12.

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

13.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

18.

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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Ball, Lucille

22.

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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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

24.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

25.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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.

27.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

28.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

29.

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

Kraus, Karl

30.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

31.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

32.

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

Moustakas, Clark

33.

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

34.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

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

40.

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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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

42.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

43.

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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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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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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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

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

Robert Orben

48.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

49.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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