Motivational Quotes

Children

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Dick Cavett

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

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

10.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

11.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

12.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Mead, Margaret

15.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

17.

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

Jameson, Anna

18.

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

19.

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

Capp, Al

20.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Robert Orben

24.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

26.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.

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

28.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Bombeck, Erma

30.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

31.

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

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

33.

It takes three to make a child.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Watts, Isaac

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

38.

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