Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dick Cavett

Best Quotes about Children

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Groucho Marx

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Dyer, Wayne

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

10.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

11.

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

Wilmot, John

12.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

13.

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

Mary MacCracken

14.

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

Fran Lebowitz

15.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

16.

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

Bruce Barton

17.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Moses, Robert

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Freud, Sigmund

26.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

29.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

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

Kraus, Karl

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

33.

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

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

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

Abbott, Lyman

36.

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

37.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

39.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

40.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

42.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

43.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

45.

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

Montessori, Maria

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

49.

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

Lewin, Roger

50.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English