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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Phyllis Diller

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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.

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

Groucho Marx

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

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

11.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

13.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

14.

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

18.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

19.

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

20.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

21.

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

22.

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

Mead, Margaret

23.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

24.

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

Morley, Christopher

25.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

26.

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.

27.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

28.

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

Jameson, Anna

29.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

30.

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

King Edward VIII

31.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

32.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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

34.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

36.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

37.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

38.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

39.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

40.

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

41.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

42.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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

44.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

47.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

48.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

49.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Epictetus