Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Epictetus

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

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Who, Dr.

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

Angelou, Maya

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Peter Ustinov

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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

Robert Orben

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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.

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

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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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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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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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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob