Motivational Quotes

Children

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Robert Orben

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

12.

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

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

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

15.

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

Lewin, Roger

16.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

17.

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

18.

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

19.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Proverb, English

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Hunt, Leigh

28.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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

30.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

31.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

33.

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

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

41.

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

Plomp, John

42.

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

Groucho Marx

43.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

45.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

46.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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

Capp, Al

49.

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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert