Motivational Quotes

Children

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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Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

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

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Capp, Al

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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Who, Dr.

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

Ovid

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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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

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

Norman Douglas

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

Proverb

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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 aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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

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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

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

Robert Orben

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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 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.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Moustakas, Clark

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.