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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
Children Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Children

1.
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Wilmot, John

2.
Never have children, only grand children.
Vidal, Gore

3.
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold

4.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
FeNelon, Francois

5.
Children need models rather than critics.
Joubert, Joseph

6.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Bombeck, Erma

7.
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

8.
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Wilbur, Ray L.

9.
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray

10.
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Epictetus

11.
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

12.
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

13.
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope, Alexander

14.
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

15.
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Long, Lazarus

16.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.
Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

22.
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.
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

24.
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Picasso, Pablo

25.
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell

26.
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Davis, Bette

27.
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Howe, Edgar Watson

28.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Jameson, Anna

29.
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

30.
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
Daniel Raeburn

31.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Waitley, Denis

32.
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
Fyfe, David

33.
Children are poor men's riches.
Ray, John

34.
That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.
Greg Garcia

35.
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Morley, Christopher

36.
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

37.
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.

38.
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

39.
It takes three to make a child.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

40.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Baldwin, James

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

44.
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

45.
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

46.
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
Capp, Al

47.
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

48.
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal

49.
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Proverb

50.
There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
Who, Dr.


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