Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Children

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

11.

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

Nash, Ogden

12.

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

Hulbert, Harold

13.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

14.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

16.

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

Baldwin, James

17.

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

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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

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

20.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

21.

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

22.

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

Capp, Al

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

27.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

28.

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

29.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

30.

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

31.

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

Groucho Marx

32.

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

33.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

34.

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

Lewin, Roger

35.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

36.

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

37.

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

John J. Plomp

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

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

Bruce Barton

40.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

41.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

46.

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

Proverb

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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

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

Phyllis Diller

49.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

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