Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Children

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

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Peter Ustinov

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Moses, Robert

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Proverb, English

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Bruce Barton

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Crane, Monta

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Jameson, Anna

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

La Bruyere, Jean De