Motivational Quotes

Children

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

John J. Plomp

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

Groucho Marx

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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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

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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

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

Eliot, George

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

28.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

Watts, Isaac

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Who, Dr.

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Plomp, John

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!