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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

15.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

16.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Plomp, John

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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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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

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Robert Orben

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

39.

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

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It takes three to make a child.

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

41.

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Robert Orben

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

Ball, Lucille

44.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Who, Dr.

49.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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