Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Edwards, Harry

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

King Edward VIII

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mary MacCracken

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Bruce Barton

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

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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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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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Who, Dr.

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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's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur