Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

John J. Plomp

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

Bible

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Capp, Al

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

10.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11.

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

Robert Orben

12.

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

Groucho Marx

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Edwards, Harry

19.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

20.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Wiesel, Elie

26.

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

27.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

Gray, Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

It takes three to make a child.

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

32.

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

Moses, Robert

33.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

34.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

35.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

36.

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

Wilmot, John

37.

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

Plomp, John

38.

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

39.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

43.

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

44.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

47.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

48.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

49.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

50.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse