Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb

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.

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

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

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

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

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

King Edward VIII

12.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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.

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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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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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Norman Douglas

30.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

31.

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

32.

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

Who, Dr.

33.

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

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

Watts, Isaac

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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