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

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

John J. Plomp

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

Pope, Alexander

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

10.

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

Bruce Barton

11.

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

12.

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

John Gray

14.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

16.

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

Robert Orben

17.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

19.

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

Jameson, Anna

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Capp, Al

24.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

25.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

Rabbinical Saying

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

32.

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

33.

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

Robert Orben

34.

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

35.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

36.

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

Moustakas, Clark

37.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

39.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

44.

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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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

46.

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

47.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

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

49.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

50.

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

Mary MacCracken