Motivational Quotes

Children

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

- Cosby, Bill

Best Quotes about Children

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

Chase, Alexander

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.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Groucho Marx

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

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

Bombeck, Erma

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Plomp, John

16.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

17.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

18.

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

19.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

20.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

21.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

Dorothy Parker

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

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

Moustakas, Clark

28.

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

29.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

31.

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

Lewin, Roger

32.

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

Sam Levenson

33.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

34.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

36.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

37.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

38.

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

39.

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

Robert Byrne

40.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

41.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

42.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

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

Daniel Raeburn

44.

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

Wilmot, John

45.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

46.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Rabbinical Saying