Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about 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

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

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Ovid

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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.

12.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

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

16.

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

Robert Orben

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

19.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

20.

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

Dogen

21.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

24.

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

Moustakas, Clark

25.

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

26.

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

Plomp, John

27.

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

28.

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

Watts, Isaac

29.

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

Who, Dr.

30.

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

Rabbinical Saying

31.

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

Robert Byrne

32.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

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

Bombeck, Erma

35.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Jones, Franklin P.

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

King Edward VIII

46.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)