Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Robert Orben

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Ball, Lucille

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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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 wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

18.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

23.

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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Wilde, Oscar

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Tauscher, Stacia

29.

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

Dick Cavett

32.

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

John J. Plomp

33.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

34.

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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

40.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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