Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Edwards, Harry

13.

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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

19.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

20.

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

William Shakespeare

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

26.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Fran Lebowitz

29.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

30.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

32.

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

Hunt, Leigh

33.

It takes three to make a child.

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

34.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

35.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ovid

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

40.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

41.

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 society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

43.

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

Moses, Robert

44.

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

45.

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

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

49.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.