Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edwards, Harry

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Capp, Al

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Moses, Robert

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Who, Dr.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Dick Cavett

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Peter Ustinov

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Groucho Marx

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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