Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

- Pollok, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Capp, Al

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.

10.

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

Moustakas, Clark

11.

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

12.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Kraus, Karl

15.

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.

16.

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

Ziglar, Zig

17.

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

18.

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

Dogen

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Lawana Blackwell

23.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

24.

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

Watts, Isaac

25.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

26.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

27.

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

Proverb

28.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

29.

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

Ball, Lucille

30.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

31.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

32.

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

Norman Douglas

33.

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

34.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

39.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.