Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Wilmot, John

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Eliot, George

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

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Hunt, Leigh

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Dick Cavett

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.