Motivational Quotes

Children

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

10.

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

11.

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

Phyllis Diller

12.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

15.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Watts, Isaac

18.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

19.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

20.

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

21.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

22.

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

Mead, Margaret

23.

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

Fran Lebowitz

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

31.

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

Chase, Alexander

32.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

34.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

35.

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

Gray, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

40.

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

41.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

42.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

43.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

44.

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

45.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

46.

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

47.

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

John Gray

48.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

49.

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