Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

- Pollok, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Crane, Monta

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

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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 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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Plomp, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Ball, Lucille

40.

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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

44.

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

King Edward VIII

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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