Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilmot, John

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

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

Dick Cavett

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

John Gray

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Plomp, John

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

John J. Plomp

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Groucho Marx

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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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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

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Ovid