Motivational Quotes

Children

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

- Taylor, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Pope, Alexander

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

32.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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Taylor, Jeremy

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

Robert Byrne

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

Capp, Al

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

John J. Plomp

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Jones, Franklin P.

43.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph