Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

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

12.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

16.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

19.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

20.

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

Gray, Thomas

21.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

22.

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

23.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

24.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

25.

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

Nash, Ogden

26.

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

27.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

28.

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

Ziglar, Zig

29.

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

Proverb, English

30.

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

Hulbert, Harold

31.

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

32.

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

Mead, Margaret

33.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

34.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

35.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

36.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

37.

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

38.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

39.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

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

42.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

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

Phyllis Diller

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

John J. Plomp

47.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

48.

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