Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

John J. Plomp

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

Moses, Robert

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Bible

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

Chase, Alexander

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Sam Levenson

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

10.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

11.

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

Plomp, John

12.

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

13.

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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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.

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Norman Douglas

31.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Jameson, Anna

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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

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Bruce Barton

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

Rabbinical Saying

40.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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.

44.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Montessori, Maria