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

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

John J. Plomp

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

13.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

14.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

15.

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

Ball, Lucille

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

17.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

18.

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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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

20.

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

Gray, Thomas

21.

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

22.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

23.

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

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

Montessori, Maria

25.

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

Lewin, Roger

26.

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

Morley, Christopher

27.

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

Groucho Marx

28.

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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

33.

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

Fran Lebowitz

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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

John Gray

48.

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

Watts, Isaac

49.

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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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.