Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are poor men's riches.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bible

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

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

10.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Ball, Lucille

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

21.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

22.

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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

30.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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

33.

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

Chase, Alexander

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It takes three to make a child.

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

35.

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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Who, Dr.

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

Edwards, Harry

40.

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

42.

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

Proverb, English

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

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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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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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Epictetus