Motivational Quotes

Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Children

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

Waitley, Denis

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

13.

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

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

18.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

19.

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.

20.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

21.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

22.

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

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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

24.

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

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

27.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

28.

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

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

30.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

31.

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

32.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

36.

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

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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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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

39.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

40.

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

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

42.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

46.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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 excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois