Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Robert Byrne

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

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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

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

Chase, Alexander

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

10.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

13.

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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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

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

16.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

17.

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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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

19.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

20.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

21.

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

Morley, Christopher

22.

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.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Crane, Monta

25.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moses, Robert

27.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

28.

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

29.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

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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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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

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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.

35.

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

Robert Orben

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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

43.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Rabbinical Saying

48.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

49.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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