Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about 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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Chase, Alexander

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Groucho Marx

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

10.

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

Ball, Lucille

11.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

12.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

13.

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

15.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

16.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

19.

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

Bruce Barton

20.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

21.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

23.

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

24.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

25.

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

26.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

28.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

29.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

30.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

31.

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

Proverb

32.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

33.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

34.

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Jameson, Anna

40.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

41.

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

42.

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

Lawana Blackwell

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

47.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

48.

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

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