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

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

King Edward VIII

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Edwards, Harry

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Ovid

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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Sam Levenson

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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