Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Daniel Raeburn

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ball, Lucille

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.

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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

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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, English

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

40.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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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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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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