Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Children

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

Abbott, Lyman

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dogen

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

Jameson, Anna

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

12.

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

13.

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 the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

15.

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

Ruskin, John

17.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

20.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

Robert Orben

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

Edwards, Harry

24.

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

25.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

26.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

27.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

28.

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

Proverb, English

29.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

30.

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

Montessori, Maria

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

36.

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

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

39.

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

40.

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

Ziglar, Zig

42.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

43.

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

44.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

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

46.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.