Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Norman Douglas

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Mead, Margaret

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

Crane, Monta

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

10.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

11.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

12.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

13.

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

Abbott, Lyman

14.

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

Rabbinical Saying

15.

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

16.

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

17.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

18.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

19.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

20.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

21.

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

22.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

23.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

24.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

25.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Moses, Robert

28.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

29.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

30.

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

Robert Orben

31.

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

Gray, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

34.

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

38.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

39.

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

Hulbert, Harold

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

42.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

43.

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

44.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Wilmot, John

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Ovid

49.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

50.

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