Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Children

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

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

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

Groucho Marx

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

10.

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

11.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

12.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

13.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

14.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

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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

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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

18.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

19.

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

20.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

21.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

22.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

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

Plomp, John

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

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

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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

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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

33.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

34.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Moses, Robert

36.

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

Capp, Al

37.

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

Montessori, Maria

38.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

43.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

44.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

Robert Orben

48.

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

49.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

50.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William