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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Wilmot, John

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

Proverb, English

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

10.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

12.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

13.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

16.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

King Edward VIII

18.

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

19.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

22.

It takes three to make a child.

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

23.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

24.

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

Hunt, Leigh

25.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

26.

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

Watts, Isaac

27.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

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

Robert Byrne

33.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

34.

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

35.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

36.

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

37.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

38.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

39.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

45.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

46.

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

Montessori, Maria

47.

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

48.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Proverb