Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Daniel Raeburn

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Groucho Marx

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

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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

11.

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

Rabbinical Saying

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

15.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

16.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Dick Cavett

20.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

24.

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

Plomp, John

25.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

26.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

29.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

30.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Ball, Lucille

32.

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

33.

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

Lawana Blackwell

34.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

35.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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

37.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

38.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

40.

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

Bruce Barton

41.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

42.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

46.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

49.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

50.

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.