Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

10.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

11.

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

Peter Ustinov

12.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

13.

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

Morley, Christopher

14.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

15.

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

Bruce Barton

16.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

18.

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

19.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

21.

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

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

Robert Byrne

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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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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

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

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

Who, Dr.

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Rabbinical Saying

32.

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

33.

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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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Dick Cavett

38.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

39.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

41.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

42.

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

Sam Levenson

44.

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

Baldwin, James

45.

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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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

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

Mary MacCracken

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb