Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- John J. Plomp

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Baldwin, James

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, English

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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 test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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 help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Moses, Robert

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Who, Dr.

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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

30.

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

Norman Douglas

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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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 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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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 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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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

41.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Nash, Ogden

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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.