Motivational Quotes

Children

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

- Decter, Midge

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

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

Dick Cavett

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.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Decter, Midge

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Who, Dr.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Baldwin, James

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rabbinical Saying

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell