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

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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.

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

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

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

18.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

19.

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

20.

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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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

33.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ruskin, John

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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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

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.