Motivational Quotes

Children

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

11.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Rabbinical Saying

15.

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

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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

Jameson, Anna

17.

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

18.

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

John J. Plomp

19.

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

20.

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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

22.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

29.

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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

33.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

34.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

35.

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

36.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

39.

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

40.

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

Edwards, Harry

41.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

43.

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

Chase, Alexander

44.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

45.

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

Morley, Christopher

46.

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

Dogen

48.

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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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