Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

It takes three to make a child.

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Ovid

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

Bible

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

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

Nash, Ogden

14.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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.

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

Proverb

17.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

20.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

21.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

22.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

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

Hulbert, Harold

25.

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

Robert Orben

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

King Edward VIII

29.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

30.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

31.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

32.

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

33.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

34.

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

Wiesel, Elie

35.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

37.

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

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

39.

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

Montessori, Maria

40.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

41.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

42.

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

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

46.

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

Proverb, English

47.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

50.

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