Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Sam Levenson

Best Quotes about Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

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

12.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

13.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dick Cavett

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

25.

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

Crane, Monta

26.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

30.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

31.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

32.

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

33.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Robert Orben

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

41.

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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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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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Adults are obsolete children.