Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Sam Levenson

10.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

11.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

25.

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

26.

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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

28.

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

Robert Orben

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Robert Orben

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

46.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan