Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Gray, Thomas

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

14.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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

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

Dogen

21.

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

22.

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

Bombeck, Erma

23.

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

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Robert Orben

26.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

27.

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

Chase, Alexander

28.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

29.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

39.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

40.

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

Robert Orben

41.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

Wiesel, Elie

43.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

44.

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

Groucho Marx

45.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

46.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Proverb

50.

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