Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

10.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

11.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

12.

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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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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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Dorothy Parker

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

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

Capp, Al

20.

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

21.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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 aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Curie, Madame Marie

31.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

33.

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

John J. Plomp

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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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Moses, Robert

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Proverb

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse