Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- John J. Plomp

Best Quotes about Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Proverb, English

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.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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 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.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

27.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Who, Dr.

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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