Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Moses, Robert

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Groucho Marx

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Plomp, John

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

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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Phyllis Diller

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Chase, Alexander

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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