Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lewin, Roger

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

Who, Dr.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

11.

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

King Edward VIII

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

27.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lewin, Roger

33.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

34.

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

Proverb

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.