Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Capp, Al

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

William Shakespeare

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Ovid

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

Proverb

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Wilmot, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Norman Douglas

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Crane, Monta