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

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

John Gray

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

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

Ovid

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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

10.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

11.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

12.

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

13.

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

Groucho Marx

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Capp, Al

26.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

30.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

31.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

32.

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

Mary MacCracken

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

34.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

35.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Watts, Isaac

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.