Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are poor men's riches.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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

Capp, Al

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Dick Cavett

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

Proverb, English

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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 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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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hunt, Leigh

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

John J. Plomp

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

Sam Levenson

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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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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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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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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 are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Phyllis Diller

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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 always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ziglar, Zig