Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mary MacCracken

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

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Plomp, John

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

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

Montessori, Maria

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Sam Levenson

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

Hunt, Leigh

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Phyllis Diller

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Proverb, English

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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

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