Motivational Quotes

Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

- Fyfe, David

Best Quotes about Children

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.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Wilmot, John

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Robert Orben

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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

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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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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

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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

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

John J. Plomp

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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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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

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Norman Douglas

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

35.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

King Edward VIII

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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