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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Groucho Marx

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

10.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

15.

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

Wilmot, John

16.

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

17.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

18.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

19.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

20.

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

Phyllis Diller

21.

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

Norman Douglas

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Ball, Lucille

25.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

27.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

28.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

29.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Bombeck, Erma

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

King Edward VIII

35.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

37.

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

Kraus, Karl

38.

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

39.

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

Moses, Robert

40.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

41.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

43.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

46.

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

Dorothy Parker

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.

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

Wiesel, Elie

49.

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

Bruce Barton

50.

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

John Gray