Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Plomp, John

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Groucho Marx

10.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

12.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

13.

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

King Edward VIII

14.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

17.

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

18.

It takes three to make a child.

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

19.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

23.

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

24.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

25.

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

Sam Levenson

26.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

27.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

28.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

29.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

30.

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

31.

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

Who, Dr.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

38.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

39.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

40.

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

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

42.

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

Proverb, English

43.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

44.

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

Bombeck, Erma

45.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

46.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.