Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Capp, Al

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

Ball, Lucille

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Crane, Monta

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

15.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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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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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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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Robert Orben

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

26.

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

Proverb, English

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

29.

It takes three to make a child.

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

30.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Fran Lebowitz

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

41.

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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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 enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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