Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Dick Cavett

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Proverb

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

10.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

11.

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.

12.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

17.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

18.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

19.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

20.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

21.

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

Mead, Margaret

22.

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

Lawana Blackwell

23.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

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

25.

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

Hunt, Leigh

26.

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

John J. Plomp

27.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

30.

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

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

Montessori, Maria

33.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

35.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

37.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

38.

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

39.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

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

Kraus, Karl

41.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Freud, Sigmund

46.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

47.

It takes three to make a child.

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

48.

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

49.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne