Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Children

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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

10.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

12.

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

Morley, Christopher

13.

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

Groucho Marx

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

17.

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

18.

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

Lewin, Roger

19.

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

Wiesel, Elie

20.

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

21.

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

John J. Plomp

22.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

23.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

24.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

26.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

27.

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.

28.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

29.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

30.

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

31.

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

Kraus, Karl

32.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

33.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

34.

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

Dogen

35.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

36.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

37.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

50.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn