Motivational Quotes

Children

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Pope, Alexander

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

10.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Sam Levenson

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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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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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 apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

30.

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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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Adults are obsolete children.