Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

10.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

11.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

12.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

13.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

16.

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

Oscar Wilde

17.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Daniel Raeburn

21.

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

Groucho Marx

22.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

23.

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

24.

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

John Gray

25.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

26.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

27.

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.

28.

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

King Edward VIII

29.

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

Bible

30.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

31.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

32.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

33.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

34.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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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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

39.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

40.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

41.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

43.

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

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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

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

47.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

48.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird