Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Dick Cavett

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

10.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

11.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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.

17.

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

Robert Orben

18.

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

19.

It takes three to make a child.

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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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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

27.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

28.

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

29.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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

32.

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

Dogen

33.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Kraus, Karl

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

41.

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

Jameson, Anna

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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.

43.

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

Pope, Alexander

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

45.

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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

49.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Ruskin, John