Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilmot, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Phyllis Diller

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

John J. Plomp

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

10.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

11.

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

12.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

13.

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

14.

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

Lewin, Roger

15.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

16.

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

Daniel Raeburn

17.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

18.

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

19.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

20.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

21.

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

22.

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

Dick Cavett

23.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

24.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

26.

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

Bible

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

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

Rabbinical Saying

29.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

35.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

36.

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

37.

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

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

Proverb, English

39.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

40.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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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

43.

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

Pope, Alexander

44.

It takes three to make a child.

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

45.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

46.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

48.

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

Wiesel, Elie

49.

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

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David