Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

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

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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.

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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

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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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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

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Who, Dr.

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Bombeck, Erma

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert 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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Dick Cavett

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

Plomp, John

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Norman Douglas

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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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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

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

Proverb

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Chase, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias