Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Bruce Barton

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

Montessori, Maria

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

30.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hulbert, Harold

40.

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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Morley, Christopher

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

48.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

49.

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

Capp, Al