Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Robert Orben

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Angelou, Maya

11.

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

Robert Orben

12.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

13.

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

21.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

22.

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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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

Peter Ustinov

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Mead, Margaret

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Daniel Raeburn

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Churchill, Winston

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.