Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Norman Douglas

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

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

Crane, Monta

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Hulbert, Harold

18.

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

Robert Orben

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

21.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Peter Ustinov

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Capp, Al

34.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

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

36.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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.

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal