Motivational Quotes

Children

Children always turn to the light.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Children

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

John J. Plomp

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

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

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

10.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

11.

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

Kraus, Karl

12.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

19.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

20.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

21.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

22.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

Mary MacCracken

24.

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

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

26.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

27.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

31.

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

Gray, Thomas

32.

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

Mead, Margaret

33.

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

Crane, Monta

34.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

35.

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

36.

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

Jameson, Anna

37.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

38.

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

Robert Byrne

39.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

40.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

41.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

42.

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

43.

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

Picasso, Pablo

44.

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

45.

It takes three to make a child.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

49.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

50.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John