Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

11.

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

Proverb, English

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

18.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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

20.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

24.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

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

Wilmot, John

27.

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

Moustakas, Clark

28.

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

29.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Ruskin, John

34.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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