Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are poor men's riches.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William Shakespeare

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

John J. Plomp

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

11.

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

Robert Orben

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Robert Byrne

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Groucho Marx

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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 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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Jameson, Anna

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Who, Dr.

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip