Motivational Quotes

Children

It's fun being a kid.

- Angier, Bradford Arthur

Best Quotes about Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Phyllis Diller

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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilmot, John

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

Sam Levenson

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

Chase, Alexander

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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

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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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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Robert Orben

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

Waitley, Denis

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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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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

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Robert Orben

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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

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

Montessori, Maria

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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jones, Franklin P.