Motivational Quotes

Children

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

- Wilmot, John

Best Quotes about Children

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

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

Mead, Margaret

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Bruce Barton

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Lawana Blackwell

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

19.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

21.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

22.

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

King Edward VIII

23.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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

25.

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

Mary MacCracken

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

29.

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

Capp, Al

30.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

31.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

36.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Gray, Thomas

39.

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

Bombeck, Erma

40.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

41.

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

Rabbinical Saying

42.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

43.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ovid

45.

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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