Motivational Quotes

Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Robert Byrne

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jameson, Anna

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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 is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Robert Orben

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

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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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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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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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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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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wilmot, John

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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

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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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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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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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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.