Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Robert Byrne

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

William Shakespeare

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

Baldwin, James

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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 our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra