Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Robert Orben

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

10.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

11.

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

12.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

13.

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

14.

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

Groucho Marx

15.

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

Ovid

16.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Groucho Marx

19.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

20.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

Who, Dr.

28.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

29.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

30.

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

31.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Lawana Blackwell

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