Motivational Quotes

Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Children

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

John J. Plomp

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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

Bombeck, Erma

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Dogen

11.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

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

Capp, Al

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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.

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

21.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

24.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

25.

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

Hulbert, Harold

26.

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

Rabbinical Saying

27.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

28.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

33.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

34.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

36.

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

Groucho Marx

37.

It takes three to make a child.

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

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Moustakas, Clark

44.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

45.

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

46.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

47.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

49.

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

50.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur