Motivational Quotes

Children

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Children

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

John J. Plomp

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

It takes three to make a child.

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

11.

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

Proverb

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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

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

Eliot, George

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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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

24.

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

Plomp, John

25.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

28.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

29.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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