Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jameson, Anna

Best Quotes about Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Abbott, Lyman

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

16.

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

Ruskin, John

17.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

18.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

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

Freud, Sigmund

21.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

22.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Dogen

28.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

29.

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

Oscar Wilde

30.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

31.

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

Wilmot, John

32.

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

Mary MacCracken

33.

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

Jameson, Anna

34.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Moses, Robert

36.

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

Peter Ustinov

37.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

39.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

41.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

43.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

Morley, Christopher

48.

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

John Gray

49.

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

50.

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

Mead, Margaret