Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Groucho Marx

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Moses, Robert

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

John Gray

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

12.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

21.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Capp, Al

28.

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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

34.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Proverb, English

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Ovid

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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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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Who, Dr.

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.