Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Best Quotes about Children

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lawana Blackwell

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Moses, Robert

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

Mead, Margaret

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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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 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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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 poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bruce Barton

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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

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Dick Cavett

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Robert Orben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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

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

Watts, Isaac