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

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

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

Wilmot, John

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Plomp, John

10.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

11.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

12.

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

13.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

14.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

15.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

20.

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

21.

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

John Gray

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Dorothy Parker

25.

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

Baldwin, James

26.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

27.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

It takes three to make a child.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Hulbert, Harold

33.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

34.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

35.

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

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Lewin, Roger

38.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Children are all foreigners.