Motivational Quotes
Children
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.

Best Quotes about Children
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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
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
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Waitley, Denis
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Canetti, Elias
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Vaughan, Bill
Children always turn to the light.
Hare, David
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Jones, Franklin P.
Adults are obsolete children.
Seuss, Dr.
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Jameson, Anna
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Our children change us... whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.
Meyer, Adolph
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Long, Lazarus
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Churchill, Winston
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
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Freud, Sigmund
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Kraus, Karl
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
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
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Kennedy, John F.
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverb, English
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Mead, Margaret
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
There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
Who, Dr.
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
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jackson, Jesse
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Ball, Lucille
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Baldwin, James
Children are poor men's riches.
Ray, John
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
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
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
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Dogen
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Ziglar, Zig
Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
Watts, Isaac
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Jones, Franklin P.
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
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
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Howe, Edgar Watson
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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