Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Groucho Marx

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

13.

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

John Gray

14.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

15.

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

16.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

17.

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

Waitley, Denis

18.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

19.

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

20.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

22.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

23.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

24.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

25.

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

Wilmot, John

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

28.

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

29.

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

Sam Levenson

30.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

31.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

32.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

33.

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

34.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

35.

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

Dick Cavett

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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

38.

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

Chase, Alexander

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

43.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

44.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

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

46.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

47.

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

Groucho Marx

48.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

49.

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

50.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene