Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

It takes three to make a child.

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

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dick Cavett

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kraus, Karl

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Robert Byrne

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

Robert Orben

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Plomp, John

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.