Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Children

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

18.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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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

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Plomp, John

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Robert Orben

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Mary MacCracken

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

John J. Plomp

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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