Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Rabbinical Saying

Best Quotes about Children

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Watts, Isaac

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Capp, Al

12.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

15.

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

16.

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

Chase, Alexander

17.

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

Who, Dr.

18.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

19.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

20.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

21.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

22.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

23.

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

Sam Levenson

24.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Groucho Marx

28.

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

Lewin, Roger

29.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

30.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

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

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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.

33.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

34.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

35.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

39.

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

Ruskin, John

40.

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

Dick Cavett

41.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

44.

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

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

Proverb