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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Baldwin, James

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

10.

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

Who, Dr.

11.

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

12.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

16.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

17.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

18.

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

Baldwin, James

19.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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

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

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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

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

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

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Bible

28.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

29.

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

Robert Orben

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

32.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

33.

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

Hunt, Leigh

34.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

36.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

37.

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

Mary MacCracken

38.

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

Capp, Al

39.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

40.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Lawana Blackwell

42.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

44.

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

King Edward VIII

45.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

47.

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

Groucho Marx

48.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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