Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

John Gray

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

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

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

Capp, Al

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, English

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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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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

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

William Shakespeare

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

Robert Orben

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Moses, Robert

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Epictetus

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Mead, Margaret

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Who, Dr.

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Plomp, John

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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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