Motivational Quotes

Children

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

- Daniel Raeburn

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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

Proverb, English

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

10.

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

Montessori, Maria

11.

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

12.

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

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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

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

15.

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

King Edward VIII

16.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

17.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

18.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

19.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

20.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

21.

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

Dorothy Parker

22.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

23.

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

24.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

27.

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

28.

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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Groucho Marx

32.

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

Bombeck, Erma

33.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

34.

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

Waitley, Denis

35.

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

36.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

37.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

38.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

39.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

40.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

41.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

42.

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

43.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

44.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baldwin, James

49.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

50.

Children always turn to the light.