Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ovid

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Moses, Robert

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

10.

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

11.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

12.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

13.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

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

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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

16.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

17.

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

18.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

19.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Plomp, John

23.

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

24.

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

Wilmot, John

25.

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

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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.

27.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

28.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

29.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

30.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

31.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Morley, Christopher

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

36.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

37.

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

38.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

39.

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

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Baldwin, James

41.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

42.

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

Jameson, Anna

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

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

46.

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

Bruce Barton

47.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

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

Montessori, Maria

49.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

50.

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.