Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Groucho Marx

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

14.

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

Moses, Robert

15.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

John J. Plomp

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

25.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Hulbert, Harold

28.

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

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Bible

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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