Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

King Edward VIII

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Groucho Marx

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Ovid

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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 child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

32.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

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

Angelou, Maya

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Epictetus

43.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John