Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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

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

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jameson, Anna

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

10.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

John J. Plomp

18.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

25.

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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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

32.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

William Shakespeare

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Wilmot, John

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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