Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Plomp, John

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

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

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.

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Proverb

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

Dick Cavett

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

John J. Plomp

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

39.

It takes three to make a child.

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

40.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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.