Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Capp, Al

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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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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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Fran Lebowitz

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bruce Barton

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Crane, Monta

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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