Motivational Quotes

Children

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Capp, Al

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

Robert Orben

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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 potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Robert Orben

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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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ball, Lucille

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Plomp, John

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Moses, Robert

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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

35.

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

Bruce Barton

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.