Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Children

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

John J. Plomp

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

20.

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

Bruce Barton

21.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

29.

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

Ball, Lucille

30.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

31.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

36.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

40.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

41.

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 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

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Jameson, Anna

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Peter Ustinov