Motivational Quotes

Children

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

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

Crane, Monta

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

It takes three to make a child.

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

13.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hunt, Leigh

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

18.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Ovid

20.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

21.

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

22.

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

John J. Plomp

23.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

24.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

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

Wiesel, Elie

26.

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

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

29.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Proverb

31.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

32.

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

Wilmot, John

33.

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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

35.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

38.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

39.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

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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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

42.

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

Fran Lebowitz

43.

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

Groucho Marx

44.

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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

Morley, Christopher

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse