Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

13.

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

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

20.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

22.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

23.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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

27.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

28.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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It takes three to make a child.

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

32.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Who, Dr.

36.

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

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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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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

44.

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

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Robert Orben

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

48.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

49.

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.

50.

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

Morley, Christopher