Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Children

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Pope, Alexander

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

11.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Crane, Monta

13.

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

14.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

15.

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

Norman Douglas

16.

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

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

19.

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

20.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Ziglar, Zig

23.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

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

Nash, Ogden

25.

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

Abbott, Lyman

26.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

32.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

33.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

Dick Cavett

36.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Moustakas, Clark

39.

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

Edwards, Harry

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Robert Byrne

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

47.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

48.

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

49.

It takes three to make a child.

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

50.

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

Mary MacCracken