Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Norman Douglas

Best Quotes about Children

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Capp, Al

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Dick Cavett

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb

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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

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

Who, Dr.

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

John J. Plomp

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

King Edward VIII

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Wilmot, John

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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.