Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Proverb, English

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Dick Cavett

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Baldwin, James

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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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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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal