Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jameson, Anna

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Wilmot, John

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

Pope, Alexander

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Chase, Alexander

10.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Phyllis Diller

13.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

14.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

15.

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

16.

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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

18.

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

Robert Orben

19.

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

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

22.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

24.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

27.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Nash, Ogden

30.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

31.

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

32.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

33.

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

Mary MacCracken

34.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

35.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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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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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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

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

Ball, Lucille

41.

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

King Edward VIII

42.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Rabbinical Saying

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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.