Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Robert Orben

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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

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

Capp, Al

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Groucho Marx

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

29.

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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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Who, Dr.

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Groucho Marx

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma