Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Bombeck, Erma

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

John J. Plomp

10.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

12.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Crane, Monta

14.

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

Groucho Marx

15.

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

John Gray

18.

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

19.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

20.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

25.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

26.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

27.

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

Plomp, John

28.

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

29.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

30.

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

31.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

33.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

34.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

35.

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

36.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

37.

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

38.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

40.

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

41.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

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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

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

45.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

46.

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

Lawana Blackwell

47.

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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

49.

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

Gray, Thomas

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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