Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Children

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Sam Levenson

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

John J. Plomp

10.

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

Dick Cavett

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

13.

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

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

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

Plomp, John

16.

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

Gray, Thomas

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

19.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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

25.

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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

31.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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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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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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Picasso, Pablo

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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.