Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Groucho Marx

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

13.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

14.

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

15.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

19.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

20.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

23.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

24.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

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

Ball, Lucille

26.

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

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.

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

29.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

30.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

31.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

32.

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

33.

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

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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

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

38.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

39.

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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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

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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

42.

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

Robert Byrne

43.

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

Peter Ustinov

44.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King Edward VIII

46.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

47.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Hulbert, Harold

49.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

50.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson