Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Morley, Christopher

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Robert Byrne

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Who, Dr.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Moses, Robert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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.

Burbank, Luther

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Dick Cavett

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle