Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about 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.

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

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Dick Cavett

11.

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

12.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Watts, Isaac

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

Who, Dr.

21.

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

Proverb

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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 potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

28.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

31.

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

Proverb, English

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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

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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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

John J. Plomp

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

Groucho Marx

42.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

44.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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.

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

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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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson