Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Children

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

Capp, Al

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Ovid

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

10.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

11.

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

Hunt, Leigh

12.

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

13.

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

14.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

15.

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

John J. Plomp

16.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

17.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

19.

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

Mary MacCracken

20.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

21.

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

22.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

23.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

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

Gray, Thomas

25.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

26.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

27.

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

Groucho Marx

28.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

29.

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

30.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

Bible

33.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

Kraus, Karl

36.

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

Peter Ustinov

37.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

38.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

39.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

40.

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

41.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

42.

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

43.

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

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

Robert Byrne

45.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

46.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

47.

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

Robert Orben

48.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

49.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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