Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Bombeck, Erma

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Capp, Al

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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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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