Motivational Quotes

Children

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Pope, Alexander

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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

Epictetus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

12.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

13.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

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.

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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

16.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

17.

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

18.

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

Moustakas, Clark

19.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

20.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

21.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

22.

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

Rabbinical Saying

23.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

24.

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

25.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

26.

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.

27.

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

Jameson, Anna

28.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

31.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

32.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Dick Cavett

34.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

35.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

36.

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

Mary MacCracken

37.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

39.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Peter Ustinov

44.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

45.

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

46.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

47.

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

48.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

49.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

50.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob