Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Crane, Monta

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

Capp, Al

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

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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

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

Peter Ustinov

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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

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

Lewin, Roger

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

John Gray

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

42.

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

Groucho Marx

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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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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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.