Motivational Quotes

Children

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

- Polanski, Roman

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dorothy Parker

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Watts, Isaac

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Ovid

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

Groucho Marx

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

King Edward VIII

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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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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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

John J. Plomp

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Bruce Barton

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

John Gray

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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