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

1.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

2.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

3.

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

4.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

5.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

7.

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

Dick Cavett

8.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

9.

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

Groucho Marx

10.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Groucho Marx

15.

It takes three to make a child.

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

16.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

17.

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

18.

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

Robert Orben

19.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

20.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Norman Douglas

24.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

25.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

26.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

27.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

28.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

33.

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

Moses, Robert

34.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

35.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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

37.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

38.

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

Baldwin, James

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

41.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

42.

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

43.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

44.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Dogen

48.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

49.

Children always turn to the light.