Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Children

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Moustakas, Clark

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

10.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Groucho Marx

14.

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

Who, Dr.

15.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Picasso, Pablo

20.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

21.

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

22.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

28.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

Wiesel, Elie

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

Robert Orben

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

36.

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

Oscar Wilde

37.

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

38.

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

John Gray

39.

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

40.

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

41.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

42.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

43.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

44.

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

Robert Orben

45.

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

46.

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

Plomp, John

47.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

48.

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

49.

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

Capp, Al