Motivational Quotes

Children

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

- Torrie, Alfred

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bombeck, Erma

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Bruce Barton

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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

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

Watts, Isaac

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

11.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

12.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

13.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

15.

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

John Gray

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

Ovid

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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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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

20.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

21.

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

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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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

31.

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

Robert Orben

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

42.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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