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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Moses, Robert

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.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Daniel Raeburn

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

King Edward VIII

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dogen

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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.