Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Watts, Isaac

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

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Dick Cavett

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, English

23.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

28.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Who, Dr.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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 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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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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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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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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

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Norman Douglas

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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.