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

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Proverb

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

10.

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

Baldwin, James

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

15.

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

16.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

17.

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

18.

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

Capp, Al

19.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

20.

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

Gray, Thomas

21.

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

Mary MacCracken

22.

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

23.

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

Hunt, Leigh

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Crane, Monta

27.

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

Robert Orben

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

30.

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

31.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

32.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Groucho Marx

36.

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

37.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

38.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

39.

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

Plomp, John

40.

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

King Edward VIII

41.

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

John J. Plomp

42.

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

Waitley, Denis

43.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

44.

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

45.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

46.

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

Moustakas, Clark

47.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

48.

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

49.

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

Jameson, Anna

50.

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

Epictetus