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

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

Robert Orben

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

10.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11.

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

Baldwin, James

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

15.

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

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

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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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

26.

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

Jameson, Anna

27.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

28.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

32.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

King Edward VIII

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Waitley, Denis

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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