Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

11.

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

Who, Dr.

12.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

16.

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

17.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

18.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Dorothy Parker

23.

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

24.

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

Jameson, Anna

25.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

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

27.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

28.

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

29.

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

Dogen

30.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

31.

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

Phyllis Diller

33.

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

Robert Orben

34.

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

35.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

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

King Edward VIII

38.

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

39.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

40.

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

Fran Lebowitz

41.

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

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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

45.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

46.

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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara