Motivational Quotes

Children

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

- Dogen

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Robert Orben

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Who, Dr.

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

Ovid

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Robert Orben

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

John J. Plomp

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Plomp, John

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Dick Cavett

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara