Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Lawana Blackwell

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

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

11.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

12.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

13.

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

14.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

16.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

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

18.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

19.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

21.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

22.

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

John J. Plomp

23.

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

Wilmot, John

24.

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

Waitley, Denis

25.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

26.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

27.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

28.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

29.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

33.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

34.

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

Dick Cavett

35.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

36.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

37.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

38.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

39.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

40.

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.

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Watts, Isaac

45.

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

Jameson, Anna

46.

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