Motivational Quotes

Children

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kraus, Karl

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

11.

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

Dick Cavett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Plomp, John

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Jameson, Anna

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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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

31.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

32.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Groucho Marx

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

John J. Plomp

45.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma