Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Children

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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 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

11.

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

17.

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

Mary MacCracken

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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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

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pope, Alexander

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

34.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Peter Ustinov

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Chase, Alexander

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

John J. Plomp

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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 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.