Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

John J. Plomp

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

Peter Ustinov

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Epictetus

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Groucho Marx

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

Ovid

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Wilmot, John

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

Ruskin, John

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Kraus, Karl

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George