Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

11.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

14.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

15.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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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

17.

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

Hunt, Leigh

18.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

19.

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

20.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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

25.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

27.

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

28.

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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

30.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

31.

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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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

34.

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

Robert Orben

35.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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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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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

41.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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