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 given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Ovid

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

10.

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

Dogen

11.

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

12.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

14.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

15.

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

Robert Orben

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

18.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

20.

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

Mead, Margaret

21.

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

22.

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

Crane, Monta

23.

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

Lewin, Roger

24.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

25.

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

26.

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

Picasso, Pablo

27.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

Capp, Al

30.

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

Robert Orben

31.

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

32.

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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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

34.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

35.

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

Moses, Robert

36.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

William Shakespeare

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

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

Groucho Marx

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Who, Dr.

45.

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

46.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Phyllis Diller

48.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.