Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

1.

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

2.

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

Phyllis Diller

3.

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

Angelou, Maya

4.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

5.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

6.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

7.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

8.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

9.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

11.

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

Norman Douglas

12.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

13.

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

14.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Montessori, Maria

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

21.

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

22.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

23.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

24.

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

Who, Dr.

25.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

26.

It takes three to make a child.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

29.

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

Ball, Lucille

30.

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

Wilmot, John

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

37.

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

38.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

39.

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

40.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

41.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

42.

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.

43.

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

Dick Cavett

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.

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

Dogen

46.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

47.

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

Robert Orben

48.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English