Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Children

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

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

Groucho Marx

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

11.

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

Norman Douglas

12.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

13.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

14.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Chase, Alexander

17.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

20.

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

21.

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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

25.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

28.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

29.

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

King Edward VIII

30.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

31.

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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

34.

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

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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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Buck, Pearl S.