Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

10.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

12.

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

Bombeck, Erma

13.

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

Moses, Robert

14.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Robert Byrne

23.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

24.

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

25.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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

29.

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

30.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter Ustinov

38.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

42.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mary MacCracken

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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