Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grand children.

- Vidal, Gore

Best Quotes about Children

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Lewin, Roger

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Bruce Barton

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

11.

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

Moustakas, Clark

12.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

13.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

14.

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

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Bombeck, Erma

20.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

21.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

28.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

29.

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

Dorothy Parker

30.

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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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, English

40.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

41.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

43.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Picasso, Pablo

45.

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

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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