Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- King Edward VIII

Best Quotes about Children

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Who, Dr.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Pope, Alexander

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

10.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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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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

17.

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

Proverb, English

18.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

19.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

20.

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

Wilmot, John

21.

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

22.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

23.

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

Capp, Al

24.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

John J. Plomp

27.

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

28.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

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

Lewin, Roger

30.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

31.

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

32.

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

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

34.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

39.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

40.

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

Montessori, Maria

41.

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

Robert Orben

42.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

44.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

45.

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

Ruskin, John

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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]

Bible

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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

48.

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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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