Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Ovid

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Groucho Marx

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Lewin, Roger

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Shakespeare, William