Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

1.

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

Dyer, Wayne

2.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

3.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

4.

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

Sam Levenson

5.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

6.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

7.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

8.

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

Who, Dr.

9.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

10.

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

11.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

12.

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

Baldwin, James

13.

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

Baldwin, James

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

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

Ball, Lucille

22.

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

Montessori, Maria

23.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

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

Nash, Ogden

30.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

31.

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

King Edward VIII

32.

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

Phyllis Diller

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Abbott, Lyman

35.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

36.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

37.

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

Edwards, Harry

38.

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

Mead, Margaret

39.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

40.

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

Mary MacCracken

41.

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

Norman Douglas

42.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

43.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

44.

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

45.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

46.

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

Bruce Barton

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Groucho Marx