Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Baldwin, James

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

12.

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

13.

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

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.

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

16.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

17.

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

18.

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

Abbott, Lyman

19.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

20.

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

Crane, Monta

21.

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.

22.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

23.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

24.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

25.

It takes three to make a child.

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

26.

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

Robert Orben

27.

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

Mary MacCracken

28.

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

29.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

30.

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

Dick Cavett

31.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

32.

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

33.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

34.

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

Dorothy Parker

35.

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

Bruce Barton

36.

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

Baldwin, James

37.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

38.

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

Robert Orben

39.

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

40.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

41.

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

42.

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

Phyllis Diller

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Hunt, Leigh

46.

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

Watts, Isaac

47.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

48.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary