Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grand children.

- Vidal, Gore

Best Quotes about Children

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ball, Lucille

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

King Edward VIII

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

10.

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

Phyllis Diller

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

16.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

17.

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

Who, Dr.

18.

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

19.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

20.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

22.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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

24.

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

Groucho Marx

25.

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

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

Kraus, Karl

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

35.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

36.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

38.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Lewin, Roger

40.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Peter Ustinov

42.

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

43.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

44.

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

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

48.

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

Mead, Margaret

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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