Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Gray, Thomas

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Robert Orben

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Hulbert, Harold

18.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Lewin, Roger

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Plomp, John

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Capp, Al

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

35.

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

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

Robert Byrne

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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

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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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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

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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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Humphrey, Hubert 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 unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Crane, Monta

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.