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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Rabbinical Saying

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Eliot, George

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

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Daniel Raeburn

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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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

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Curie, Madame Marie

23.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

26.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

31.

It takes three to make a child.

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

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Capp, Al

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

Bruce Barton

38.

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

39.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

John J. Plomp

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

49.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Wiesel, Elie