Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Sam Levenson

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

12.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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It takes three to make a child.

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

17.

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

Epictetus

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

John J. Plomp

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

30.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

42.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

44.

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

Norman Douglas

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

Eliot, George

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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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Peter Ustinov