Motivational Quotes

Children

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

- Cottle, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Plomp, John

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Phyllis Diller

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

30.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

31.

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

Gray, Thomas

32.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

34.

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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

John J. Plomp

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Shakespeare, William

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

48.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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