Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Mead, Margaret

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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.

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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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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 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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Moses, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

33.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, 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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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.