Motivational Quotes

Children

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

King Edward VIII

12.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Plomp, John

20.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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

Chase, Alexander

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Moses, Robert

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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

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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

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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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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.