Motivational Quotes

Children

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Children

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Robert Orben

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Norman Douglas

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

10.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

11.

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

12.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

20.

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

Abbott, Lyman

21.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

22.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

25.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

26.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

27.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

28.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

29.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

30.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

31.

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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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

33.

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

John J. Plomp

34.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

39.

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

Bruce Barton

40.

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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

42.

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

43.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

44.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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

46.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

47.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

Jameson, Anna

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.