Motivational Quotes

Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Plomp, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

10.

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

Hunt, Leigh

11.

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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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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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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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

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

Jameson, Anna