Motivational Quotes

Children

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Ruskin, John

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Proverb, English

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

16.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

17.

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

18.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

19.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

20.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Moustakas, Clark

25.

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

Phyllis Diller

27.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

28.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

31.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

32.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

33.

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

34.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

36.

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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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

38.

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

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

41.

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

42.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

43.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

44.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

45.

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

Lewin, Roger

46.

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

Chase, Alexander

47.

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

Baldwin, James

48.

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

Bombeck, Erma

49.

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.

50.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward