Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

1.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

2.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

3.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

4.

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

Pope, Alexander

5.

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

Baldwin, James

6.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

7.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

8.

It takes three to make a child.

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

9.

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

10.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

12.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

15.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

17.

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

18.

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

Moustakas, Clark

19.

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

Phyllis Diller

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

23.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

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

Plomp, John

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

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

Capp, Al

30.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

Dorothy Parker

33.

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

34.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

35.

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

John J. Plomp

36.

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

Mary MacCracken

37.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

Robert Orben

39.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

40.

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

Lewin, Roger

41.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

42.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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.

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

Gray, Thomas

45.

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

Rabbinical Saying

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

49.

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

Sam Levenson

50.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.