Motivational Quotes

Children

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Best Quotes about Children

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

10.

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.

11.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

12.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

15.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

17.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

18.

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

Robert Orben

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Sam Levenson

23.

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

24.

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

Fran Lebowitz

25.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

26.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

27.

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

28.

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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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.

30.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

31.

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

32.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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

39.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

42.

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

43.

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

Bombeck, Erma

44.

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

45.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

46.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

47.

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

Gray, Thomas

48.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

49.

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

50.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy