Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

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

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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.

10.

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

11.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

15.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

18.

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

19.

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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

21.

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

22.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

23.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

25.

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

Robert Orben

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

Morley, Christopher

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lawana Blackwell

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

33.

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

Eliot, George

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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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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 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

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

Nash, Ogden

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

47.

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

48.

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

Edwards, Harry

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger