Motivational Quotes

Children

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Sam Levenson

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

William Shakespeare

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Dorothy Parker

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

11.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

12.

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

Robert Byrne

13.

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

14.

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

Wilmot, John

15.

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

Eliot, George

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

Montessori, Maria

18.

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

19.

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

Bombeck, Erma

20.

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

Epictetus

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

24.

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

Groucho Marx

25.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Moses, Robert

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

30.

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

Wiesel, Elie

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

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

33.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

35.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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

Dick Cavett

40.

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

41.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

43.

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

Robert Orben

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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

45.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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

49.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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