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

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

Dorothy Parker

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

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

Moses, Robert

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Orben

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Robert Orben

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

Bombeck, Erma