Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Moses, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Wilmot, John

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

Dick Cavett

14.

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

King Edward VIII

15.

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

Montessori, Maria

16.

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

17.

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

Abbott, Lyman

18.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

19.

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

20.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

21.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

22.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

23.

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

24.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

27.

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

Wiesel, Elie

28.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

29.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

30.

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

31.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

32.

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

33.

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

Nash, Ogden

34.

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

Hulbert, Harold

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

38.

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

39.

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

Crane, Monta

40.

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

41.

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

Dorothy Parker

42.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

43.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

44.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.