Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Bible

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Groucho Marx

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Who, Dr.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Mead, Margaret

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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.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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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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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

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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