Motivational Quotes

Children

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Norman Douglas

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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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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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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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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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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Groucho Marx

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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