Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Children

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Eliot, George

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hulbert, Harold

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

Dick Cavett

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

19.

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

20.

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

Robert Orben

21.

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

Robert Orben

22.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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.

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

Edwards, Harry

25.

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

26.

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

Dogen

27.

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

28.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

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

Plomp, John

30.

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

Lawana Blackwell

31.

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

Robert Byrne

32.

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

33.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

34.

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

35.

It takes three to make a child.

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

36.

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

37.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

38.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

40.

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

Crane, Monta

41.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

42.

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

43.

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

Sam Levenson

44.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

45.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

48.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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