Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Children

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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.

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

Bruce Barton

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Dogen

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

John J. Plomp

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Phyllis Diller

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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.

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

Dick Cavett

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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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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Who, Dr.

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian