Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ruskin, John

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

11.

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

Ovid

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

15.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

16.

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

John J. Plomp

17.

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

18.

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

John Gray

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

22.

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

23.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

24.

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

Proverb, English

25.

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

Plomp, John

26.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

27.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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

29.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

30.

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

Capp, Al

32.

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

33.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

34.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

36.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

37.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

42.

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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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

45.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.