Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Children

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Kraus, Karl

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Groucho Marx

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

William Shakespeare

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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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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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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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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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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.