Motivational Quotes

Children

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Children

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wilmot, John

10.

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

11.

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

Daniel Raeburn

12.

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

13.

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

Moses, Robert

14.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

17.

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

Ball, Lucille

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

25.

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

26.

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

Groucho Marx

27.

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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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

29.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

30.

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

Robert Orben

31.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

34.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

35.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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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.

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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

42.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

45.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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