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

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

Moses, Robert

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

10.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Picasso, Pablo

13.

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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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Morley, Christopher

23.

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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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

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

27.

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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Rabbinical Saying

31.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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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

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

40.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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.

45.

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

King Edward VIII

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Churchill, Winston