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

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Moses, Robert

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Plomp, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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.

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

14.

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

King Edward VIII

15.

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

16.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

17.

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

Jameson, Anna

18.

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

19.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

20.

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

Wiesel, Elie

21.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

22.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

23.

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

24.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

25.

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

26.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

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

29.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

35.

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

Fran Lebowitz

36.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

37.

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

38.

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

Norman Douglas

39.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

40.

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

Capp, Al

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

44.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

46.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

47.

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

Ruskin, John

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.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

50.

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

Kraus, Karl