Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Pope, Alexander

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

King Edward VIII

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

10.

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

11.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

12.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

13.

It takes three to make a child.

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

14.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

15.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Dick Cavett

17.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

18.

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

19.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

22.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

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

26.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

33.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

34.

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

35.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

36.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

37.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

38.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

39.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

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

42.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

43.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

44.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

45.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

46.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

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

Lewin, Roger

48.

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

Robert Byrne

49.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

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

John J. Plomp