Motivational Quotes

Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

- Bill Watterson

Best Quotes about Children

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Edwards, Harry

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.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

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

Ruskin, John

10.

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

Plomp, John

11.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

12.

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

13.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

14.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

15.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

16.

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

17.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

19.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

20.

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

Peter Ustinov

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Mead, Margaret

26.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

27.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

28.

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

29.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

30.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

31.

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

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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

Robert Orben

38.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

39.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

42.

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

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.

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

Wiesel, Elie

45.

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

Dorothy Parker

46.

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

47.

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

Hulbert, Harold

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

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