Motivational Quotes

Children

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Lewin, Roger

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

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

Norman Douglas

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Who, Dr.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

10.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Hulbert, Harold

13.

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

Robert Orben

14.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

15.

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

16.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

17.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

18.

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

19.

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

20.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

21.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

22.

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

Crane, Monta

23.

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

24.

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

Moses, Robert

25.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

26.

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

Fran Lebowitz

27.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

28.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Bruce Barton

41.

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

Groucho Marx

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

44.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

45.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

47.

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

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark