Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb

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

Norman Douglas

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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

11.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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.

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.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

16.

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

17.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

18.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

19.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

20.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

23.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

Edwards, Harry

25.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

27.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

32.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

33.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

34.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

35.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

36.

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

37.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

38.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Kraus, Karl

40.

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

Wilmot, John

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

48.

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

Angelou, Maya

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.