Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

John Gray

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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 can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Who, Dr.

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Baldwin, James

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

34.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.