Motivational Quotes

Children

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Robert Orben

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

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

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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Proverb, English

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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

Ovid

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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 home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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