Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Capp, Al

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

16.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

17.

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

Crane, Monta

18.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

19.

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

20.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

22.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

23.

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

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

28.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

29.

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

Hunt, Leigh

30.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

31.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

32.

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

33.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

34.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

35.

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

36.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

38.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

40.

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

41.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

42.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

43.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

44.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

45.

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

Phyllis Diller

46.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

47.

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

Lewin, Roger

48.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

49.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

50.

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