Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ovid

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

Sam Levenson

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

10.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

11.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

12.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

13.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

14.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

15.

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

16.

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

Crane, Monta

17.

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

18.

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

Wiesel, Elie

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

22.

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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

It takes three to make a child.

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

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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

32.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

34.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

35.

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

36.

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

Groucho Marx

37.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

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

Gray, Thomas

39.

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

Lewin, Roger

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

43.

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 three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.