Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

- Pollok, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Bruce Barton

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Who, Dr.

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

Sam Levenson

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Moses, Robert

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

John Gray

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kraus, Karl

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