Motivational Quotes

Children

The child is the father of the man.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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

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

Moses, Robert

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

11.

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

12.

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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Jameson, Anna

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

25.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Phyllis Diller

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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.

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

Dick Cavett

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph