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

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

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Meyer, Adolph

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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Dobson, Dr. James C.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Robert Orben

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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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

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

John J. Plomp

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas