Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Jones, Franklin P.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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 have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

John Gray

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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 seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Capp, Al

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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

25.

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

26.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Jameson, Anna

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

32.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.

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

36.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

45.

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

Plomp, John

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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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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

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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