Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about Children

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Jameson, Anna

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Sam Levenson

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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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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

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oscar Wilde

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Capp, Al

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

John J. Plomp

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fran Lebowitz

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.

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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Groucho Marx

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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

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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