Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

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 takes three to make a child.

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Bruce Barton

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Ruskin, John

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

Robert Orben

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Ziglar, Zig

15.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

16.

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

Kraus, Karl

17.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

Robert Byrne

19.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

22.

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

Baldwin, James

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

25.

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

Capp, Al

26.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

27.

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

28.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

29.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

30.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

31.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

32.

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

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

35.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

36.

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

Mary MacCracken

37.

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

Rabbinical Saying

38.

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

Montessori, Maria

39.

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

Watts, Isaac

40.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

41.

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

42.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

43.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

45.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

46.

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

47.

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

Plomp, John

48.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

49.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

50.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go