Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

King Edward VIII

Ehrenreich, Barbara

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Bible

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

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

Robert Byrne

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

10.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

11.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

12.

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

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

Crane, Monta

14.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

15.

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

Capp, Al

16.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

18.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

19.

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

21.

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

22.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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

24.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

25.

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

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

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

Moses, Robert

28.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

Abbott, Lyman

31.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

32.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

33.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

34.

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

35.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Dick Cavett

38.

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

Moustakas, Clark

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

41.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

42.

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

Robert Orben

43.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

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

Picasso, Pablo

46.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

48.

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

49.

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

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George