Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Phyllis Diller

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Robert Orben

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

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

10.

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

Dogen

11.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Angelou, Maya

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

24.

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

Proverb, English

25.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Bruce Barton

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Robert Orben

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

35.

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

John J. Plomp

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Peter Ustinov

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Proverb

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

Who, Dr.

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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