Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

John J. Plomp

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lewin, Roger

10.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

11.

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

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.

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

14.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

15.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

16.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

19.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

20.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

28.

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

29.

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

Daniel Raeburn

30.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

32.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

33.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

34.

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

35.

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

36.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Groucho Marx

38.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Waitley, Denis

44.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

45.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

50.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.