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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
Children Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Children

1.
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz

2.
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

3.
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

4.
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

5.
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
Baldwin, James

6.
Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Lewin, Roger

7.
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker

8.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Waitley, Denis

9.
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
Bradshaw, John

10.
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

11.
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

12.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
La Bruyere, Jean De

13.
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

14.
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

15.
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray

16.
What is done to children, they will do to society.
Menninger, Karl A.

17.
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.

18.
Never have children, only grand children.
Vidal, Gore

19.
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Lamb, Mary

20.
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Behn, Aphra

21.
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

22.
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
Pollok, Robert

23.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Dick Cavett

24.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Buck, Pearl S.

26.
Children are the keys of paradise.
Stoddard, Richard Henry

27.
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

28.
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

29.
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
Ehrenreich, Barbara

30.
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

31.
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Ruskin, John

32.
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold

34.
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
Ruskin, John

35.
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

36.
Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
Watts, Isaac

37.
Children need models rather than critics.
Joubert, Joseph

38.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare

39.
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

40.
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

41.
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

42.
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

43.
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

44.
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

45.
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

46.
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

47.
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

48.
Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales

49.
Children always turn to the light.
Hare, David

50.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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