Motivational Quotes

Children

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Morley, Christopher

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.

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bruce Barton

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

John J. Plomp

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Mead, Margaret