Motivational Quotes

Children

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

- Tauscher, Stacia

Best Quotes about Children

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

Norman Douglas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

10.

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

Hunt, Leigh

11.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

12.

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

Bombeck, Erma

13.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Fran Lebowitz

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

24.

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

King Edward VIII

25.

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

Watts, Isaac

26.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

30.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

32.

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

33.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

34.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

35.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

39.

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

Sam Levenson

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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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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

45.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

47.

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

48.

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

Buck, Pearl S.