Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mary MacCracken

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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

11.

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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

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

Plomp, John

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Ball, Lucille

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

30.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

39.

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Capp, Al

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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

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.