Motivational Quotes

Children

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

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

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Bruce Barton

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

John Gray

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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

14.

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

Robert Orben

15.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

16.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

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

18.

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

Peter Ustinov

19.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Picasso, Pablo

23.

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

24.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

25.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

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

29.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

30.

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

Plomp, John

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Groucho Marx

35.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

36.

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

37.

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

Hunt, Leigh

38.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Moustakas, Clark

40.

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

41.

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

Moses, Robert

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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

Robert Orben

45.

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

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.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

48.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

49.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

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