Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Eucharista Ward

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

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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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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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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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

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

Robert Orben

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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

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

Plomp, John

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

John Gray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Dick Cavett

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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