Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Picasso, Pablo

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hunt, Leigh

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Bombeck, Erma

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Chase, Alexander

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

King Edward VIII

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

33.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, 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