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 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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Wilmot, John

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, English

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Baldwin, James

10.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

11.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

Baldwin, James

14.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

15.

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

16.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

17.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

18.

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

19.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

20.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

21.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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.

23.

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

Dorothy Parker

24.

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

Edwards, Harry

25.

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

Picasso, Pablo

26.

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

Parker, Dorothy

29.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

30.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

32.

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

33.

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

Montessori, Maria

34.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

35.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

36.

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

37.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

38.

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

Rabbinical Saying

39.

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

Fran Lebowitz

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

41.

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

42.

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

Wiesel, Elie

43.

It takes three to make a child.

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

44.

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

Moses, Robert

45.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

46.

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

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

49.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

50.

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