Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Children

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

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.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Plomp, John

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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Proverb

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dick Cavett

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Groucho Marx

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Hunt, Leigh