Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

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

Proverb

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

John Gray

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

Nash, Ogden

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Wilmot, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

10.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

11.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

12.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

13.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

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

Mary MacCracken

17.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

18.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

19.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

20.

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

Mead, Margaret

21.

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

22.

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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

24.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

25.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

26.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

36.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

37.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

38.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

40.

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

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

Bruce Barton

42.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

43.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

46.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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