Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Baldwin, James

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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

11.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

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

Bible

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

20.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

21.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

27.

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

William Shakespeare

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

30.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

31.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

32.

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

Dick Cavett

33.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

37.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

38.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

48.

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

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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Be gentle with the young.