Motivational Quotes

Children

It's fun being a kid.

- Angier, Bradford Arthur

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Capp, Al

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

Picasso, Pablo

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Chase, Alexander

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

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Dick Cavett

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

Pope, Alexander

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Robert Orben

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

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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 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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Howe, Edgar Watson