Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sam Levenson

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

Peter Ustinov

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

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Groucho Marx

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

Moses, Robert

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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Montessori, Maria

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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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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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

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lewin, Roger

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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