Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bible

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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

10.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

11.

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

12.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

13.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

14.

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

Groucho Marx

15.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

16.

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

Norman Douglas

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Wiesel, Elie

20.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

21.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

22.

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

Robert Orben

23.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Jameson, Anna

28.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

32.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

33.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

36.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

37.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

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

Daniel Raeburn

40.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

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

Lewin, Roger

42.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

44.

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

Wilmot, John

45.

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

Proverb

46.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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