Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Proverb

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

Bombeck, Erma

12.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

13.

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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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Rabbinical Saying

17.

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

18.

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

Capp, Al

19.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

20.

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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

23.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

24.

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

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

27.

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

Robert Byrne

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Plomp, John

32.

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

Bruce Barton

33.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

34.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

35.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Angelou, Maya

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

John Gray

40.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

42.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

46.

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

47.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett