Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Pope, Alexander

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

11.

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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

13.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Peter Ustinov

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

25.

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

26.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

27.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

28.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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

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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

39.

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

41.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Eliot, George

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

Bruce Barton

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

William Shakespeare

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