Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

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

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

Ovid

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

Groucho Marx

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

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

Gray, Thomas

11.

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

12.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

13.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

14.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

15.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

16.

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

Morley, Christopher

17.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

18.

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.

19.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

20.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

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

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

25.

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

26.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

27.

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

28.

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

Bombeck, Erma

29.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

30.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

31.

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

Wiesel, Elie

32.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

33.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Mary MacCracken

37.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

38.

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

Nash, Ogden

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

41.

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

Oscar Wilde

42.

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

Rabbinical Saying

43.

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

44.

It takes three to make a child.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Eliot, George

48.

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

Hulbert, Harold

49.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

50.

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