Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

John J. Plomp

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Crane, Monta

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

Oscar Wilde

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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 no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

40.

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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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.