Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Children

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

Eliot, George

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Baldwin, James

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

Dorothy Parker

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

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

Robert Byrne

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

25.

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

John J. Plomp

26.

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

27.

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

Dogen

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

Phyllis Diller

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

30.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

31.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

John Gray

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

Jones, Franklin P.

36.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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 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.

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

40.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

41.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Sam Levenson

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bombeck, Erma