Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Bruce Barton

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Robert Orben

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

14.

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

15.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

16.

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

John J. Plomp

17.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Groucho Marx

23.

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

24.

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

Wiesel, Elie

25.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

26.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

27.

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

28.

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

Robert Orben

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

31.

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

32.

It takes three to make a child.

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

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

35.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

36.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

37.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

38.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Kraus, Karl

43.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

44.

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

Ovid

45.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

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

Robert Byrne

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

Hulbert, Harold

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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