Motivational Quotes

Children

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

- Shan, Eda J. Le

Best Quotes about Children

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, English

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

10.

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

Rabbinical Saying

11.

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

12.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Wilmot, John

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.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

18.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

19.

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

Hulbert, Harold

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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

24.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

25.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

26.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.

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

28.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

30.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

31.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

32.

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

Fran Lebowitz

33.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

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

Moses, Robert

35.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

36.

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

37.

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

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

39.

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

King Edward VIII

40.

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

41.

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

Ovid

42.

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

John J. Plomp

43.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

44.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

45.

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

46.

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

Picasso, Pablo

47.

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

Sam Levenson

48.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

49.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.