Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Children

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Jameson, Anna

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Proverb, English

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Mary MacCracken

15.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

16.

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

Plomp, John

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

22.

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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Who, Dr.

28.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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 never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montessori, Maria

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Wilmot, John

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Bruce Barton

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

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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

47.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley