Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Proverb

10.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

Hulbert, Harold

13.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

14.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

15.

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

Plomp, John

16.

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

17.

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

Bombeck, Erma

18.

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

19.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

20.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

21.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

22.

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

Dorothy Parker

23.

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

Phyllis Diller

24.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

25.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

26.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

27.

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

28.

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

Kraus, Karl

29.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

30.

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

Edwards, Harry

31.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

32.

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

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

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

35.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

37.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

38.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

39.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

Robert Orben

43.

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

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

46.

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

Morley, Christopher

47.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

48.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

Waitley, Denis