Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilmot, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Moses, Robert

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

11.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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

13.

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

Groucho Marx

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

17.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

18.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

19.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

20.

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

21.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Robert Orben

24.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

27.

It takes three to make a child.

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

28.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

29.

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

Jameson, Anna

30.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

31.

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

32.

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

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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

34.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

35.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Lewin, Roger

40.

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

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

Bruce Barton

42.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ball, Lucille