Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Who, Dr.

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

Nash, Ogden

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

11.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Kraus, Karl

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Robert Byrne

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

39.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.