Motivational Quotes

Children

It's fun being a kid.

- Angier, Bradford Arthur

Best Quotes about Children

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

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ovid

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

Capp, Al

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Churchill, Winston

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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 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

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Plomp, John

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Dick Cavett

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch