Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Who, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Who, Dr.

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

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

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

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

12.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

13.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Plomp, John

17.

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

18.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

20.

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

21.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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

24.

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

Dick Cavett

25.

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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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

28.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

29.

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

Wiesel, Elie

30.

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

Fran Lebowitz

31.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

34.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

35.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

36.

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

Groucho Marx

37.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

38.

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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

46.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

47.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Oscar Wilde

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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