Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are poor men's riches.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Watts, Isaac

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

10.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Crane, Monta

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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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

25.

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.

27.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Hulbert, Harold

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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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