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

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Oscar Wilde

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Moses, Robert

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

Parker, Dorothy

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

10.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

11.

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

Bombeck, Erma

12.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

13.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

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

Hulbert, Harold

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

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

21.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

22.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

23.

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

24.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

25.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

Gray, Thomas

28.

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

Phyllis Diller

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Morley, Christopher

32.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

33.

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

34.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

35.

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

36.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

40.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Dorothy Parker

47.

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

Waitley, Denis

48.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

49.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

50.

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