Motivational Quotes

Children

It's fun being a kid.

- Angier, Bradford Arthur

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Wilmot, John

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

Plomp, John

11.

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

12.

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

John Gray

13.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

14.

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

15.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

16.

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

Sam Levenson

17.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

18.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

19.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

20.

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

21.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

22.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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

25.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

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

Lewin, Roger

27.

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

28.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

29.

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

Ovid

30.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

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

Dick Cavett

33.

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

Picasso, Pablo

34.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

36.

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

37.

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

Capp, Al

38.

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

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

Kraus, Karl

40.

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

41.

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

Gray, Thomas

42.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

45.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

46.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

47.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

49.

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

Robert Orben

50.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert