Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

Peter Ustinov

13.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

14.

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

15.

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

Chase, Alexander

16.

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

17.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

18.

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

Oscar Wilde

19.

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

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Hunt, Leigh

24.

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

25.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Hulbert, Harold

34.

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

35.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

36.

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

37.

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

Wilmot, John

38.

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

39.

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

Phyllis Diller

40.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Watts, Isaac

43.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

45.

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

Angelou, Maya

46.

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

47.

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

Nash, Ogden

48.

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

49.

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

Dorothy Parker

50.

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