Motivational Quotes

Children

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Fran Lebowitz

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Orben

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

Ovid

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Robert Orben

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Groucho Marx

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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.

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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