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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

10.

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

Baldwin, James

11.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

12.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

Rabbinical Saying

14.

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

15.

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

Wiesel, Elie

17.

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

18.

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

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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

20.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

21.

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

22.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

23.

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

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.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

26.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

27.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

28.

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

29.

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

Hulbert, Harold

30.

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

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

33.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

34.

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

35.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

36.

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

37.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

38.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

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