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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

John J. Plomp

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Montessori, Maria

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

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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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Groucho Marx

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Who, Dr.

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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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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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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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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