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

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

Robert Byrne

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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.

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb, English

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Groucho Marx

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

John J. Plomp

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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 all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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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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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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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

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse