Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Fran Lebowitz

10.

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

11.

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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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

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

15.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

John J. Plomp

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

Waitley, Denis

21.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

Bruce Barton

31.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

35.

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

Bombeck, Erma

36.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

37.

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

39.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

40.

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

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

48.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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