Motivational Quotes

Children

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Ovid

11.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

12.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

13.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

14.

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

15.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

16.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

17.

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

Wiesel, Elie

18.

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

Nash, Ogden

19.

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

Moses, Robert

20.

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

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

27.

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

Hulbert, Harold

28.

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

29.

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

Lewin, Roger

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

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

Hunt, Leigh

32.

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

Watts, Isaac

33.

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

34.

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

Groucho Marx

35.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

36.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb

39.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Picasso, Pablo

42.

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

Mary MacCracken

43.

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

44.

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

Morley, Christopher

45.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Sam Levenson

48.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

49.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

50.

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

Bombeck, Erma