Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grand children.

- Vidal, Gore

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Nash, Ogden

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Crane, Monta

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

11.

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

Rabbinical Saying

12.

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

13.

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

14.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

Picasso, Pablo

17.

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

Lewin, Roger

18.

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

Phyllis Diller

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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

20.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

21.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

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

23.

It takes three to make a child.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

Edwards, Harry

27.

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

Chase, Alexander

28.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

31.

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

32.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

33.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

34.

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

Groucho Marx

35.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

36.

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

Plomp, John

37.

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

38.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

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

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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

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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

42.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

43.

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

44.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Moses, Robert

50.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben