Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Groucho Marx

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

John J. Plomp

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

Mead, Margaret

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Plomp, John

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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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Robert Orben

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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

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

King Edward VIII

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Eucharista Ward

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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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

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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 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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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 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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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