Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Robert Byrne

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Ovid

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Picasso, Pablo

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Who, Dr.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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Swift, Jonathan

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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

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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.

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

Hulbert, Harold