Motivational Quotes

Children

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Ovid

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

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

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

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Groucho Marx

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

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

12.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

14.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

15.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

16.

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

Norman Douglas

17.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

18.

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

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Dick Cavett

21.

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

Hulbert, Harold

22.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

27.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

28.

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

29.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

31.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

32.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

33.

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

Robert Byrne

34.

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

John J. Plomp

35.

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

36.

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

Bombeck, Erma

37.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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

Freud, Sigmund

41.

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

Crane, Monta

42.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

43.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

44.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

45.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

46.

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

Who, Dr.

47.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

48.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

49.

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

50.

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

Rabbinical Saying

Daily Inspirational Quotes on

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by Motivational Quotes.

Quotes on Advertising

Advice

Age

Age and aging

Alcohol and alcoholism

Christians and christianity

Churches

Civilization

Colleges and universities

Quotes on Commitment

Common sense

Communication

Communism and socialism

Competition

Quotes on Complaints and complaining

Quotes on Contentment

Fools and foolishness

Quotes on Forgiveness

Freedom

Friends and friendship

Quotes on Heroes and heroism

History and historians

Quotes on Intelligence and intellectuals

Jesus christ

Journalism and journalists

Quotes on Law and lawyers

Quotes on Lies and lying

Quotes on Losers and losing

Parents and parenting

Philosophers and philosophy

Quotes on Photography

Quotes on Possibilities

Quotes on Procrastination

Quotes on Respectability

Quotes on Speakers and speaking

Quotes on Things and little things

Thoughts and thinking

Test your English Language

Interior Essentials

Valentines Day for Kids

Latest Hair Colours

Healthy Throat

Top Hotels

Embarrassing Celebrity Moments

The Best Square Cars of all Time

Most Favourite Disney Princes

Benefits of Oranges

Benefits of Iceberg lettuce

Tulsidas

Rules to play Arm Wrestling

Rules to play Ildado

Tea Types

Host a party

Stylish Holiday and Christmas Decorating Ideas

Success Tips For Life

Success Tips For Students