Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

John J. Plomp

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

Kraus, Karl

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

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Moses, Robert

11.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

Robert Orben

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Morley, Christopher

17.

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

Plomp, John

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

John Gray

21.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

22.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Jameson, Anna

30.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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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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

36.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

38.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

39.

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

40.

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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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

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

43.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

46.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

47.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

48.

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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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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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