Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

11.

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

Sam Levenson

12.

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

13.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

14.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

John Gray

18.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

19.

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

Dorothy Parker

20.

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

Hulbert, Harold

21.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

22.

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

Ball, Lucille

23.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

24.

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

25.

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

Montessori, Maria

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

28.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

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

30.

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

Moses, Robert

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

33.

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

Baldwin, James

34.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

38.

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

39.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

40.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

41.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

42.

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

Mead, Margaret

43.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

44.

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

Baldwin, James

45.

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

46.

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

Nash, Ogden

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Watts, Isaac

50.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb