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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

11.

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

Montessori, Maria

12.

It takes three to make a child.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Watts, Isaac

23.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

24.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Daniel Raeburn

28.

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

Ball, Lucille

29.

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

Plomp, John

30.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Jameson, Anna

32.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

33.

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

Moses, Robert

34.

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

35.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

36.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Bombeck, Erma

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Buck, Pearl S.