Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

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

Robert Orben

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

10.

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

11.

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

Hunt, Leigh

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

15.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

16.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

18.

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

Phyllis Diller

19.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

20.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

21.

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

King Edward VIII

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Capp, Al

24.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

25.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

30.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

Moustakas, Clark

33.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

38.

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.

39.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

41.

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

Kraus, Karl

42.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

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

Ball, Lucille

44.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

45.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

46.

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

47.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

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

49.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

50.

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

Robert Byrne