Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Edwards, Harry

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

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Phyllis Diller

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Plomp, John

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Groucho Marx

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.