Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sam Levenson

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

Dogen

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.

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Dick Cavett

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Waitley, Denis

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton