Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Robert Orben

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Jameson, Anna

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hunt, Leigh

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Sam Levenson

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hulbert, Harold

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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.