Motivational Quotes

Children

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]

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Best Quotes about Children

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

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

11.

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.

12.

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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Jameson, Anna

16.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

18.

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

Capp, Al

19.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

20.

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

21.

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

Dick Cavett

22.

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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

25.

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

Abbott, Lyman

27.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

28.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

29.

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

Plomp, John

30.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.

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

Groucho Marx

32.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

33.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

34.

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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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Dorothy Parker

40.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

41.

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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

44.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

45.

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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

47.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

48.

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

49.

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

Mary MacCracken

50.

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