Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

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

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

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

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Plomp, John

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

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Proverb

11.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Who, Dr.

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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

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

John J. Plomp

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Ovid

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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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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

38.

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

40.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Dick Cavett

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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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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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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

49.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al