Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

It takes three to make a child.

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

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

10.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

11.

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

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

18.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

19.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

20.

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

21.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

22.

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

Nash, Ogden

23.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

26.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

27.

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

Robert Byrne

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

30.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

Baldwin, James

33.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

34.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

35.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

36.

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

Ball, Lucille

37.

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

Peter Ustinov

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.

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

Mead, Margaret

40.

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

41.

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

Wiesel, Elie

42.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

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

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

45.

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

Oscar Wilde

46.

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

Gray, Thomas

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.