Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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 child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Ruskin, John

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Proverb

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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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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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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

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

31.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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

Robert Byrne

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dick Cavett

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.