Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Children

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

John J. Plomp

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

13.

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

14.

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

Parker, Dorothy

15.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

16.

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

Crane, Monta

17.

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

18.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hunt, Leigh

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

24.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

25.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

26.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

27.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

28.

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

Morley, Christopher

29.

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

Mary MacCracken

30.

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

31.

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

Phyllis Diller

32.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

33.

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

34.

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

Plomp, John

35.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

36.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

37.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

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

39.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

40.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

42.

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

43.

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

44.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

47.

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

Baldwin, James

48.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

49.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

50.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur