Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pope, Alexander

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Jones, Franklin P.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Who, Dr.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Norman Douglas

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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Peter Ustinov

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Edwards, Harry

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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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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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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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