Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Crane, Monta

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Ball, Lucille

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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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

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

29.

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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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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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Proverb

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.