Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Capp, Al

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Angelou, Maya

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

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

Wiesel, Elie

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

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

Baldwin, James

14.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

15.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

16.

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

17.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

19.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

20.

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

Moses, Robert

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

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

Freud, Sigmund

23.

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

Plomp, John

24.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

25.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

28.

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

Gray, Thomas

29.

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

Sam Levenson

30.

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

31.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

32.

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

33.

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

Ovid

34.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

35.

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

36.

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

Bruce Barton

37.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

38.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

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

Chase, Alexander

40.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

41.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

42.

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

Wilmot, John

43.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

48.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett