Motivational Quotes
Children
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.
Best Quotes about Children
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Ball, Lucille
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
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
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
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
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
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
Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
Gray, Thomas
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
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Picasso, Pablo
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
Lawana Blackwell
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Hulbert, Harold
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Shakespeare, William
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
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
Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
Watts, Isaac
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
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
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
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
Capp, Al
Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Lewin, Roger
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
Daniel Raeburn
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
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Johnson, Lady Bird
I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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 is fed with milk and praise.
Lamb, Mary
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
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Montessori, Maria
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
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
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Jameson, Anna
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Proverb
Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Kraus, Karl
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Wilbur, Ray L.
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
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Wilde, Oscar
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Nash, Ogden
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
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
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverb, English
Children always turn to the light.
Hare, David
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
Cottle, Thomas J.
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