Motivational Quotes

Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

- Robertson Davies

Best Quotes about Children

1.

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

Eliot, George

2.

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

Montessori, Maria

3.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

4.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

5.

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

6.

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

Dorothy Parker

7.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

8.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

9.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

Moustakas, Clark

11.

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

Bruce Barton

12.

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

Ball, Lucille

13.

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

14.

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

Groucho Marx

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Freud, Sigmund

17.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

18.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

19.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

21.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

22.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

23.

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

24.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

26.

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.

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

John Gray

35.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

37.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

38.

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

Lewin, Roger

39.

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

Pope, Alexander

40.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

41.

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

Edwards, Harry

42.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

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

Proverb

44.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

45.

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

Dyer, Wayne

46.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, English

50.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

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