Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Shakespeare, William

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Capp, Al

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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 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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Who, Dr.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

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

Moses, Robert

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Dogen

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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

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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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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

32.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

33.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

35.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewin, Roger

41.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

43.

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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.