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

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Groucho Marx

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

Dick Cavett

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Who, Dr.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Wilde, Oscar

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

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

Abbott, Lyman

11.

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

Hulbert, Harold

12.

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

13.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

14.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

15.

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

Fran Lebowitz

16.

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

17.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

18.

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

Moustakas, Clark

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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.

21.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

22.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

23.

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

Lawana Blackwell

24.

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

Wiesel, Elie

25.

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

Groucho Marx

26.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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.

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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

32.

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

33.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

34.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

35.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Freud, Sigmund

37.

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

38.

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

Norman Douglas

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

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

Edwards, Harry

45.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

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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

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

49.

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

50.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich