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

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Epictetus

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

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

Capp, Al

11.

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

Norman Douglas

12.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

20.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

21.

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

22.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

23.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

24.

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

Hunt, Leigh

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

John J. Plomp

27.

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

28.

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

Hulbert, Harold

29.

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

Waitley, Denis

30.

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

Plomp, John

31.

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

32.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

33.

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

Sam Levenson

34.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

35.

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

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

38.

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

Gray, Thomas

39.

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

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.

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

Peter Ustinov

42.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

43.

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

Bruce Barton

44.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

45.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

46.

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

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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

48.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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.

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

Rabbinical Saying