Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Plomp, John

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Robert Orben

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Groucho Marx

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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 is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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 aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Decter, Midge

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mary MacCracken

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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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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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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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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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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De