Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

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

Wilmot, John

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

Abbott, Lyman

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

10.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

King Edward VIII

12.

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

13.

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

Sam Levenson

14.

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

Picasso, Pablo

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

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

Chase, Alexander

17.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

18.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

19.

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

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Bombeck, Erma

24.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

25.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

26.

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

Morley, Christopher

27.

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

28.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

34.

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.

Anna Quindlen

35.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

Who, Dr.

40.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

43.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Norman Douglas

45.

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

46.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

47.

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

Robert Byrne

48.

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

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