Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Who, Dr.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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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

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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bruce Barton

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

Groucho Marx

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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

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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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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

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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.

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John