Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Nash, Ogden

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.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Baldwin, James

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

10.

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

Proverb

11.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

14.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

17.

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

18.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

21.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

22.

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

Phyllis Diller

23.

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

Watts, Isaac

24.

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

Hulbert, Harold

25.

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

26.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Sam Levenson

29.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

30.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

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

Dick Cavett

33.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

35.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

36.

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

Dogen

37.

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

Jameson, Anna

38.

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

Edwards, Harry

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

41.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

42.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

43.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

44.

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

Rabbinical Saying

45.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

46.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

47.

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

48.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

49.

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

50.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.