Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

John Gray

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Ball, Lucille

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Lewin, Roger

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Dick Cavett

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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Proverb, English

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Who, Dr.

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

Robert Byrne

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Nash, Ogden

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne