Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

John Gray

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

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

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

John J. Plomp

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

Dogen

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

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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]

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

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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

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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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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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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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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]

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Robert Orben

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John