Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

John Gray

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

Robert Orben

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Mary MacCracken

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

13.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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

15.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

16.

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

Morley, Christopher

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

19.

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

20.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

24.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

25.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

26.

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

Parker, Dorothy

27.

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

Dogen

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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

29.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

35.

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

Ball, Lucille

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

40.

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

41.

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

Who, Dr.

42.

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

43.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

44.

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

45.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Baldwin, James

49.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Hunt, Leigh