Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Baldwin, James

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Proverb, English

10.

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

Bombeck, Erma

11.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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

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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.

24.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

25.

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

26.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

30.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

31.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

34.

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

Who, Dr.

35.

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

John Gray

37.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

39.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

40.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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

42.

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

Norman Douglas

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

Buck, Pearl S.

45.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Johnson, Lady Bird