Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rabbinical Saying

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

10.

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

11.

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

Picasso, Pablo

12.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

14.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

15.

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

16.

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

Wilmot, John

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

19.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

20.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

24.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

25.

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.

26.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Freud, Sigmund

31.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

33.

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

Lawana Blackwell

34.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

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

Kraus, Karl

36.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

37.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

38.

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

39.

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

Moses, Robert

40.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

41.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

42.

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

Ziglar, Zig

43.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

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.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

48.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

49.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

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

Jameson, Anna