Motivational Quotes

Children

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Plomp, John

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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 takes three to make a child.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Phyllis Diller

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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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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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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Moses, Robert

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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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 only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Ball, Lucille

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

Capp, Al

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.