Motivational Quotes

Children

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Children

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

Capp, Al

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

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

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Lewin, Roger

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dorothy Parker

20.

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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

27.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

28.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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

Ball, Lucille

33.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

35.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Robert Orben

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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

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

41.

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

Plomp, John

42.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fran Lebowitz

45.

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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

47.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.