Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

10.

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

John J. Plomp

11.

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

Rabbinical Saying

12.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

13.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Jameson, Anna

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

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Robert Orben

24.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

26.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

27.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

Dick Cavett

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

39.

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.

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Oscar Wilde

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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

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

Lewin, Roger