Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bible

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

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

John Gray

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

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

Sam Levenson

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

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

King Edward VIII

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Groucho Marx

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

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Capp, Al

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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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

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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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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