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.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Lewin, Roger

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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.

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

Dorothy Parker

10.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

11.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

12.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

13.

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

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

17.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

18.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

19.

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

Moses, Robert

20.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

24.

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

25.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

26.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

30.

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

John Gray

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

33.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

41.

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

Lawana Blackwell

42.

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

Watts, Isaac

43.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.