Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

11.

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

12.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

15.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

16.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

17.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

18.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

19.

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

Nash, Ogden

20.

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

Dick Cavett

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, English

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

24.

It takes three to make a child.

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

25.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

26.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

28.

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

29.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

32.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

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

Hulbert, Harold

34.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

35.

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

Angelou, Maya

36.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Phyllis Diller

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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

40.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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

Capp, Al

42.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

45.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

46.

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

47.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

48.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

49.

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