Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wiesel, Elie

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Plomp, John

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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

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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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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

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

21.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Phyllis Diller

30.

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

31.

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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

William Shakespeare

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Moses, Robert

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

45.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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 fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton