Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Children

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

Kraus, Karl

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

11.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

12.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

13.

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

Mead, Margaret

14.

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

Plomp, John

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Dick Cavett

19.

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

20.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

Picasso, Pablo

23.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

24.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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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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

28.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

29.

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

Sam Levenson

30.

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

John Gray

31.

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

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

33.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

34.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

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

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

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Hunt, Leigh

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The child is the father of the man.