Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

It takes three to make a child.

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

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

10.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

11.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

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

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

15.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

16.

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

Wilmot, John

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

21.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

22.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

23.

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

Watts, Isaac

24.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

25.

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

26.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Who, Dr.

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

31.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

32.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

33.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

34.

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

35.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

36.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

37.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

38.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

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

Dogen

40.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

41.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

42.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

43.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

44.

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

45.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

46.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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