Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Bruce Barton

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

10.

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

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

Dick Cavett

13.

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

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

Baldwin, James

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

18.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

19.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

20.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

23.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

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

Plomp, John

25.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

28.

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

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

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

Gray, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

35.

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

Ovid

36.

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

Hunt, Leigh

37.

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

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Picasso, Pablo

42.

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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

44.

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

Who, Dr.

45.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

46.

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

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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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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

49.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne