Motivational Quotes

Children

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Children

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

John J. Plomp

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Oscar Wilde

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Plomp, John

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Capp, Al

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Moses, Robert

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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