Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Wilmot, John

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Lawana Blackwell

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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

11.

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

Watts, Isaac

12.

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

Bruce Barton

13.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

15.

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

Peter Ustinov

16.

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

17.

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

Kraus, Karl

18.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

19.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

20.

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

Bible

21.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

22.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

23.

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

Edwards, Harry

24.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

25.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

26.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

27.

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

Plomp, John

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

30.

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

Robert Orben

31.

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

32.

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

Bombeck, Erma

33.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

Hulbert, Harold

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

36.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

37.

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

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

39.

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

Baldwin, James

40.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

41.

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

42.

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

Dogen

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children are all foreigners.