Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

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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 takes three to make a child.

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

12.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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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

22.

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

Plomp, John

25.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

27.

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

Morley, Christopher

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Sam Levenson

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

35.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Who, Dr.

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

48.

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 mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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