Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Moustakas, Clark

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Robert Byrne

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

Moses, Robert

10.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

11.

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

12.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Hunt, Leigh

15.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

19.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

25.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

John Gray

28.

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

Bruce Barton

29.

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

Dorothy Parker

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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

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

Mary MacCracken

37.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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

43.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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

45.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx