Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Watts, Isaac

Best Quotes about Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Wilmot, John

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

Watts, Isaac

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

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

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Dorothy Parker

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

15.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

16.

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

Robert Orben

17.

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

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

19.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

20.

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

Proverb, English

21.

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

22.

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

Picasso, Pablo

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

26.

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

27.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

28.

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

Mead, Margaret

29.

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

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

John J. Plomp

32.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

33.

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

Peter Ustinov

34.

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

35.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

It takes three to make a child.

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

39.

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

Moustakas, Clark

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

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.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

44.

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

45.

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

46.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

47.

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

Bible

48.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

49.

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