Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Children

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Moustakas, Clark

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Crane, Monta

12.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

13.

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

John J. Plomp

14.

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

15.

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

Watts, Isaac

16.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Peter Ustinov

20.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

21.

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

Sam Levenson

22.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

24.

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

Hulbert, Harold

25.

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

26.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

33.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

34.

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

35.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

36.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

38.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

39.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Wilmot, John

45.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

46.

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

47.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

48.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

49.

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

Robert Orben

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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