Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Crane, Monta

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

Who, Dr.

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

Sam Levenson

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

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

Bruce Barton

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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

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

John Gray

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Moses, Robert

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

Plomp, John

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

Mary MacCracken

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Churchill, Winston

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

35.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

John J. Plomp

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

Dick Cavett

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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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