Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jameson, Anna

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

John J. Plomp

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

Groucho Marx

10.

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

Daniel Raeburn

11.

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

Who, Dr.

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Rabbinical Saying

14.

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

15.

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

Ball, Lucille

16.

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

17.

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

Bombeck, Erma

18.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

19.

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

Plomp, John

20.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

21.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

22.

It takes three to make a child.

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

23.

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

24.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

25.

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

Dorothy Parker

26.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

27.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

28.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

31.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

32.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

35.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Montessori, Maria

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Mead, Margaret

40.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

41.

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

John Gray

42.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

43.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

44.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

46.

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

Wilmot, John

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]