Motivational Quotes

Children

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

- Greg Garcia

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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.

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

10.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

11.

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

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

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

Mead, Margaret

26.

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

John J. Plomp

27.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Moustakas, Clark

29.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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

33.

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

Waitley, Denis

34.

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

Who, Dr.

35.

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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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

39.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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

41.

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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

44.

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

Lewin, Roger

45.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

46.

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

Robert Byrne

47.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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.

49.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Jones, Franklin P.