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

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

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

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

Ovid

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Proverb, English

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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.

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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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

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Phyllis Diller

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Jameson, Anna

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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