Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Lawana Blackwell

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.

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

Ovid

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Plomp, John

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Robert Byrne

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dick Cavett

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Groucho Marx

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess