Motivational Quotes

Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

- Fyfe, David

Best Quotes about 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.

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Epictetus

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

Plomp, John

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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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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Groucho Marx

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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Angelou, Maya

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Sam Levenson

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

46.

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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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.

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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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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