Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ovid

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

14.

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

Bombeck, Erma

15.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

16.

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

Hulbert, Harold

17.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

18.

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

19.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

20.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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

Lewin, Roger

22.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

23.

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

24.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

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

Dogen

27.

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

28.

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

King Edward VIII

29.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Lawana Blackwell

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

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

Watts, Isaac

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

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

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

38.

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

Mead, Margaret

39.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

41.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

43.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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.

45.

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

Robert Orben

46.

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

47.

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

Ball, Lucille

48.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

49.

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

50.

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