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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Robert Orben

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lawana Blackwell

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Hunt, Leigh

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

10.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

11.

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

Moustakas, Clark

12.

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

Rabbinical Saying

13.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

18.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

19.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

20.

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.

21.

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

Daniel Raeburn

22.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

24.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Fran Lebowitz

32.

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

John J. Plomp

33.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

34.

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

Bible

35.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

36.

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

Bruce Barton

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

42.

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

Watts, Isaac

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

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

Phyllis Diller

45.

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

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

48.

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

Mead, Margaret

49.

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

50.

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

Jones, Franklin P.