Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Tauscher, Stacia

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Dick Cavett

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Plomp, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

Moses, Robert

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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 society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

19.

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

Robert Orben

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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 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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

30.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

31.

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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Dorothy Parker

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Groucho Marx

44.

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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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