Motivational Quotes

Children

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

John J. Plomp

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

Proverb

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Dick Cavett

It takes three to make a child.

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

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

13.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.

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

16.

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

17.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

20.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Bruce Barton

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Who, Dr.

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

Rabbinical Saying

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

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

Bible

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

35.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Groucho Marx

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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 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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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

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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

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

Capp, Al

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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