Motivational Quotes

Children

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

- Harrison, Jane

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jones, Franklin P.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Montessori, Maria

13.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

14.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

15.

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

Daniel Raeburn

16.

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

17.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

19.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

20.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

22.

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

23.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

24.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

25.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

26.

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

John J. Plomp

27.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

28.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Hulbert, Harold

32.

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

Sam Levenson

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Phyllis Diller

36.

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.

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

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

Groucho Marx

40.

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

Dick Cavett

41.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

42.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

43.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

44.

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

Who, Dr.

45.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

46.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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.

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

49.

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

Robert Orben

50.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William