Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jameson, Anna

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

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

13.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Plomp, John

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

Robert Orben

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Pope, Alexander

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Orben

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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 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.

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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