Motivational Quotes

Children

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

- Moustakas, Clark

Best Quotes about Children

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Rabbinical Saying

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Moses, Robert

10.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

11.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Bombeck, Erma

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

Crane, Monta

17.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

Hunt, Leigh

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

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

Hulbert, Harold

23.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

24.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

29.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

30.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

31.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

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

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

36.

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

37.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

38.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

39.

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

John J. Plomp

40.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

41.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

42.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

43.

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

Peter Ustinov

44.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Dorothy Parker

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Ball, Lucille