Motivational Quotes

Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilmot, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

12.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

13.

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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

15.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

18.

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

Plomp, John

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

John J. Plomp

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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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Capp, Al

23.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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.

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

Dick Cavett

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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