Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Groucho Marx

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

12.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Sam Levenson

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

Angelou, Maya

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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's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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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

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Ruskin, John

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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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.

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Abbott, Lyman

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Howe, Edgar Watson