Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Dick Cavett

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

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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