Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

11.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

John J. Plomp

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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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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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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Ovid

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

Who, Dr.

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

Moses, Robert

39.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb