Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

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.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nash, Ogden

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

12.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

13.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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

15.

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

Plomp, John

16.

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

Phyllis Diller

18.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

19.

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

Sam Levenson

20.

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

Robert Orben

21.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Hunt, Leigh

23.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

25.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

34.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

41.

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

42.

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

Wiesel, Elie

43.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

44.

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

Norman Douglas

45.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

46.

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

47.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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