Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Children

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Dogen

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

Groucho Marx

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

Picasso, Pablo

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

10.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

11.

It takes three to make a child.

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

12.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

13.

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

Angelou, Maya

14.

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

18.

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

Bruce Barton

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

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

Edwards, Harry

23.

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

Peter Ustinov

24.

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

Montessori, Maria

25.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

41.

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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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

44.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

45.

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

Capp, Al

46.

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

Proverb, English

47.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

48.

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

49.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch