Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Mead, Margaret

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

John J. Plomp

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

12.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

13.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

14.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

15.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Ball, Lucille

18.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

21.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

22.

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

Oscar Wilde

23.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

24.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

25.

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

Montessori, Maria

26.

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

Hulbert, Harold

27.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

29.

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

30.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

31.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

32.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

33.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

34.

It takes three to make a child.

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

35.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

36.

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

Baldwin, James

37.

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

Edwards, Harry

38.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

39.

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

Plomp, John

40.

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.

41.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

42.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

43.

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

44.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

45.

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

Fran Lebowitz

46.

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

47.

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

48.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

49.

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

50.

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