Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Ovid

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

10.

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

John Gray

11.

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

12.

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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

21.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

23.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

26.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

27.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

30.

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

Robert Orben

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

Who, Dr.

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

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

Wilmot, John

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

King Edward VIII

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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

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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

45.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

48.

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

Groucho Marx