Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Groucho Marx

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

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

10.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

11.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

12.

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

Plomp, John

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

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

17.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

18.

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

Morley, Christopher

19.

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

20.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

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

Mead, Margaret

25.

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

26.

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

27.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

32.

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

Dick Cavett

33.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

34.

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

35.

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

Angelou, Maya

36.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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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.

39.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

40.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

42.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

43.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

44.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Edwards, Harry