Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Children

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

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

John J. Plomp

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

11.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

12.

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

Baldwin, James

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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

15.

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

Dorothy Parker

16.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

17.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

18.

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.

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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

20.

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

King Edward VIII

21.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

22.

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

23.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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

Mead, Margaret

26.

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

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

28.

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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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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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

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

33.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Lewin, Roger

35.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

40.

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

Robert Orben

41.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

42.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

43.

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

44.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

45.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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

49.

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

Phyllis Diller