Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Tauscher, Stacia

Best Quotes about Children

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Robert Byrne

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

Dorothy Parker

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

John J. Plomp

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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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

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb, English

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Norman Douglas

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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewin, Roger

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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

Capp, Al

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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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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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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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Plomp, John

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki