Motivational Quotes

Children

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

- Greg Garcia

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Bible

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

John J. Plomp

10.

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

Rabbinical Saying

11.

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

Who, Dr.

12.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

13.

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

Baldwin, James

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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.

16.

It takes three to make a child.

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

17.

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

18.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

19.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

20.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

21.

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

Dorothy Parker

22.

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

Groucho Marx

23.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

24.

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

26.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

27.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

28.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

29.

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

30.

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

Montessori, Maria

31.

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

32.

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

Waitley, Denis

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

36.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

38.

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

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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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

47.

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

Moses, Robert

48.

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

Bruce Barton

49.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.