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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

12.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

13.

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

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Dick Cavett

18.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

19.

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

20.

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

Jameson, Anna

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

29.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

30.

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

Lawana Blackwell

31.

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

32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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

John J. Plomp

34.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

35.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Robert Orben

37.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

39.

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

40.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

41.

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.

42.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

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

45.

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

Edwards, Harry

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

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

Lawana Blackwell

48.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

49.

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

50.

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