Motivational Quotes

Children

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

- Who, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb, English

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Crane, Monta

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

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

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Groucho Marx

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

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

Robert Orben

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Lewin, Roger

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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

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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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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Plomp, John

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Edwards, Harry

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

John J. Plomp

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.