Motivational Quotes

Children

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

King Edward VIII

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

10.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

16.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

17.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

19.

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

20.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

21.

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

22.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

Who, Dr.

25.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

26.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

27.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

28.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

31.

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 completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

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

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

John J. Plomp

42.

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

John Gray

43.

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

Picasso, Pablo

44.

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

Phyllis Diller

45.

It takes three to make a child.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ovid

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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