Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Children

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

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.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sam Levenson

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

Groucho Marx

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Lawana Blackwell

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal