Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Plomp, John

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Wilmot, John

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

Rabbinical Saying

10.

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

11.

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

Hulbert, Harold

12.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

13.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

15.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

19.

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

20.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

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 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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

25.

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

Moses, Robert

26.

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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Mary MacCracken

29.

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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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

31.

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

Watts, Isaac

32.

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

John J. Plomp

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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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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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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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

40.

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

41.

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

Chase, Alexander

42.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

43.

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

Ball, Lucille

44.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

45.

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

Phyllis Diller

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Moustakas, Clark

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English