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

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

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Robert Orben

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

13.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Wilmot, John

17.

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

18.

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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

20.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

21.

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

22.

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

Norman Douglas

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Montessori, Maria

26.

It takes three to make a child.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Daniel Raeburn

30.

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

31.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

33.

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

Dick Cavett

34.

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

Watts, Isaac

35.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

41.

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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

47.

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

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

50.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell