Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Dorothy Parker

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.

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

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

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

Edwards, Harry

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Who, Dr.

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Robert Orben

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

Freud, Sigmund

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

28.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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

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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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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Plomp, John

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