Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grand children.

- Vidal, Gore

Best Quotes about Children

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Ovid

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Robert Orben

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Chase, Alexander

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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

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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

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

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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Robert Orben

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Ustinov

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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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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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.

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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