Motivational Quotes

Children

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Chase, Alexander

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Fran Lebowitz

10.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

14.

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

15.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Dorothy Parker

20.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

21.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

22.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

23.

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

24.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

25.

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

26.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

27.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

28.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

29.

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

30.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

31.

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

32.

It takes three to make a child.

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

33.

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

34.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

37.

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

Nash, Ogden

38.

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

Daniel Raeburn

39.

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

Jameson, Anna

40.

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

41.

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

42.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

43.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Capp, Al

49.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

50.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall