Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Waitley, Denis

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Jordan, June

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

10.

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

11.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

12.

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

13.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

14.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Robert Orben

17.

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

18.

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

19.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

20.

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

21.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

22.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

24.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

25.

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

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

28.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

29.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

30.

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

Dogen

31.

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

Wilmot, John

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

Bible

33.

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

John J. Plomp

34.

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

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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

Bombeck, Erma

37.

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

38.

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

Capp, Al

39.

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

Abbott, Lyman

40.

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

41.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

44.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

45.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

46.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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