Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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

11.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

12.

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

13.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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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

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Bombeck, Erma

19.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

20.

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

21.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

22.

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

Bible

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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

25.

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

Plomp, John

26.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

28.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

30.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

31.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

32.

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

Baldwin, James

33.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

34.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

35.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

36.

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

Jameson, Anna

37.

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

Mead, Margaret

38.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

39.

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

40.

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

Ball, Lucille

41.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

45.

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

46.

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

Lawana Blackwell

47.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

48.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar