Motivational Quotes

Children

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

- Dick Cavett

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

10.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

11.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

12.

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

13.

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

Lewin, Roger

14.

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

15.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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.

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

Gray, Thomas

19.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

20.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

21.

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

Bombeck, Erma

22.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

Parker, Dorothy

24.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

25.

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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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

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

29.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

33.

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

John Gray

34.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

35.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

37.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

38.

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

Mary MacCracken

39.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

40.

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

41.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

42.

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

Proverb

43.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

44.

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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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

46.

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

Kraus, Karl

47.

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

Oscar Wilde

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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