Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb

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

Hulbert, Harold

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

King Edward VIII

19.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

20.

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

Capp, Al

21.

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

22.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

23.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

24.

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

25.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

26.

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

27.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

28.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

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

31.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

32.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

34.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

35.

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

36.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

37.

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

38.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Bruce Barton

40.

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

41.

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

49.

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

Fran Lebowitz

50.

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