Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Who, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

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

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

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dogen

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Groucho Marx

12.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

25.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Robert Byrne

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Bruce Barton

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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.

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

Plomp, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Proverb