Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- John J. Plomp

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Groucho Marx

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Shakespeare, William

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Dick Cavett

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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

Sam Levenson

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

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

Capp, Al

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Edwards, Harry

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Robert Orben

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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

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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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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

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig