Motivational Quotes

Children

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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Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bruce Barton

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Menninger, Karl A.

10.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

11.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

12.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

13.

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

14.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

15.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

17.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

18.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

19.

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

John Gray

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Capp, Al

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

29.

It takes three to make a child.

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

30.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

31.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

35.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

36.

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

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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.

38.

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

Hunt, Leigh

39.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

40.

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