Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Shakespeare, William

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

Groucho Marx

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

Norman Douglas

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

11.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

12.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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.

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

Kraus, Karl

15.

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

16.

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

Bruce Barton

17.

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

Moustakas, Clark

18.

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

19.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

20.

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

Proverb, English

21.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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.

It takes three to make a child.

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

24.

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

Who, Dr.

25.

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

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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

27.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

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

Ruskin, John

29.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

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

Eliot, George

31.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

Robert Orben

33.

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

Plomp, John

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

37.

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

Watts, Isaac

38.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

39.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

41.

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

Baldwin, James

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

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

44.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

45.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

46.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

47.

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.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

49.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

50.

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