Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11.

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

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Edwards, Harry

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Moustakas, Clark

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Baldwin, James

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Norman Douglas

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

42.

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

Robert Orben

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

Hunt, Leigh

45.

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

Sam Levenson

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

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin