Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Proverb, English

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

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

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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

12.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

13.

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

King Edward VIII

14.

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

15.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Ball, Lucille

18.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

19.

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

Baldwin, James

20.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

23.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

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

25.

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

Gray, Thomas

26.

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

27.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

28.

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

29.

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

Robert Orben

30.

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

31.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

32.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

33.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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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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

38.

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

39.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

40.

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

Ovid

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

Kraus, Karl