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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Picasso, Pablo

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

12.

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

13.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

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

15.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

17.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

18.

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

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

21.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

22.

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

Bombeck, Erma

23.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

24.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Plomp, John

29.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

32.

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

Hunt, Leigh

33.

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

Dick Cavett

34.

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

Waitley, Denis

35.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

36.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

37.

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

38.

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

Dorothy Parker

39.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

Lewin, Roger

42.

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

43.

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

Wilmot, John

44.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

45.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

46.

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

47.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

50.

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