Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Children

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.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

Phyllis Diller

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

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

Groucho Marx

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Lewin, Roger

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Robert Byrne

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Capp, Al

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Ovid

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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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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

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Sam Levenson

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

Peter Ustinov

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Watts, Isaac

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques