Motivational Quotes

Children

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

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

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

10.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Dogen

13.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

14.

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

15.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

16.

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

Morley, Christopher

17.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

20.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

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

Robert Orben

24.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

25.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

26.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

27.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

28.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

32.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Robert Byrne

34.

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

35.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

36.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

37.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

38.

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

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

40.

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

Moses, Robert

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

45.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

46.

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

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