Motivational Quotes

Children

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

- Rabbinical Saying

Best Quotes about Children

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

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.

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

Dick Cavett

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

Kraus, Karl

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

10.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

13.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

15.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

16.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

19.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

20.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

22.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

23.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

24.

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

25.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

27.

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

28.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

29.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

34.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

40.

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

41.

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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

43.

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

Nash, Ogden

44.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

Groucho Marx

46.

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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

48.

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

49.

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

Robert Byrne

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.