Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

10.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

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

14.

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

Ball, Lucille

15.

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

Capp, Al

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

18.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

19.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

20.

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

21.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

22.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

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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

25.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

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

Phyllis Diller

28.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

29.

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

Bruce Barton

30.

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

Dorothy Parker

31.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

32.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

33.

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

Robert Orben

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

36.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

37.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

38.

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

Wiesel, Elie

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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

43.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Peter Ustinov

45.

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

46.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

47.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

48.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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