Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

1.

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

2.

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

Robert Orben

3.

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

Ovid

4.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

5.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

6.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

7.

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

Baldwin, James

8.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

9.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Lewin, Roger

11.

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

12.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

13.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

14.

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

Watts, Isaac

15.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

16.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

17.

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

King Edward VIII

18.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

19.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

20.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

21.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

22.

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

23.

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

Ball, Lucille

24.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

25.

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

Crane, Monta

26.

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

27.

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

28.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

30.

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

31.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

32.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

33.

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

34.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

36.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

37.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

38.

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

Proverb, English

39.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

John J. Plomp

41.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

42.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

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

44.

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

Norman Douglas

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

47.

Never have children, only grandchildren.