Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Ball, Lucille

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Robert Orben

12.

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

Crane, Monta

13.

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

Mead, Margaret

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

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

Who, Dr.

16.

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

17.

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

Sam Levenson

18.

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

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

20.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

21.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

22.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

24.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

25.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

35.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

43.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

49.

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

John Gray

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

Dogen