Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

10.

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

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

13.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

18.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

23.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

31.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

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

Mead, Margaret

33.

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

Waitley, Denis

34.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

35.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Plomp, John

37.

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

John Gray

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

42.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

43.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

45.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

46.

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

Fran Lebowitz

47.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

50.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb