Motivational Quotes

Children

The child is the father of the man.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

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

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Dick Cavett

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Dorothy Parker

12.

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

Montessori, Maria

13.

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

17.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

19.

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

Kraus, Karl

20.

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

21.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

22.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

24.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

25.

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

26.

It takes three to make a child.

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

27.

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

Ovid

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.

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

30.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

John J. Plomp

34.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

35.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

36.

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

King Edward VIII

37.

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

Ziglar, Zig

38.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Gray, Thomas

40.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Phyllis Diller

45.

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

46.

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

48.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

49.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lawana Blackwell