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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

17.

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

18.

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

20.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

24.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Abbott, Lyman

28.

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

Capp, Al

29.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

32.

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

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

Ziglar, Zig

35.

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

Fran Lebowitz

36.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

37.

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

Norman Douglas

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

44.

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

45.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

46.

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

Nash, Ogden

47.

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

Morley, Christopher

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch