Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Eliot, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

John J. Plomp

18.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

19.

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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Ball, Lucille

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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

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.

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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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, English

43.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Dick Cavett

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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