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

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Plomp, John

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

10.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

11.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

12.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

13.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

14.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

15.

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

16.

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

Rabbinical Saying

17.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

18.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

19.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

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

Mead, Margaret

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

24.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

25.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

King Edward VIII

29.

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

Capp, Al

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.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

32.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

33.

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

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

35.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

36.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

It takes three to make a child.

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

38.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

39.

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

40.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

41.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

42.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

43.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

45.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

46.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

47.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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