Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Sam Levenson

Best Quotes about Children

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

John J. Plomp

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

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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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

11.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Fran Lebowitz

17.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Edwards, Harry

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

20.

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

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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

23.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Bible

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

34.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Robert Orben

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Nash, Ogden

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Chase, Alexander

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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