Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

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

Edwards, Harry

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Pope, Alexander

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Hunt, Leigh

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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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

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip