Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Sam Levenson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

Ruskin, John

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

John J. Plomp

10.

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

Baldwin, James

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Dorothy Parker

13.

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

14.

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

Robert Orben

15.

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

16.

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

Fran Lebowitz

17.

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

Picasso, Pablo

18.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

19.

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

Hulbert, Harold

20.

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

21.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

22.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

23.

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

Ball, Lucille

24.

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

25.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

26.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

29.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

30.

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

Freud, Sigmund

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

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

Edwards, Harry

33.

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

34.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

35.

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

36.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Gray, Thomas

39.

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