Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

10.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

11.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

12.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

13.

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

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

16.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

20.

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

21.

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

Montessori, Maria

22.

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

23.

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

King Edward VIII

24.

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

25.

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

26.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

27.

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

Ball, Lucille

28.

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

Moustakas, Clark

29.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

31.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

32.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

33.

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

Abbott, Lyman

34.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

35.

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

Mead, Margaret

36.

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

37.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

38.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

40.

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

Peter Ustinov

41.

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

Watts, Isaac

42.

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

43.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

44.

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

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

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

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

49.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

50.

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