Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

John J. Plomp

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

13.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

14.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

16.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

17.

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

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

20.

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

Wilmot, John

21.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

22.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

23.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Fran Lebowitz

27.

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

28.

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

Capp, Al

29.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

31.

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

Dogen

32.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

33.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

35.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

36.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

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

Edwards, Harry

38.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

39.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

41.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

42.

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.

43.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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