Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Plomp, John

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Bible

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

13.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

14.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

15.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

16.

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

Lewin, Roger

17.

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

Baldwin, James

18.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

19.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Proverb

22.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

27.

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

28.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

29.

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

Bombeck, Erma

30.

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

Moses, Robert

31.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

32.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

33.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

34.

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

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

36.

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

37.

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

38.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

39.

It takes three to make a child.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Mead, Margaret

42.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

43.

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

44.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

48.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

49.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.