Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

William Shakespeare

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

10.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

11.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

12.

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

13.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

14.

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

Dorothy Parker

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.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

17.

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

18.

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

Robert Byrne

19.

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

20.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

21.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

22.

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

John J. Plomp

23.

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

24.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

25.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

26.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

29.

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

Sam Levenson

30.

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

Proverb

31.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

37.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

38.

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

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

40.

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

Ziglar, Zig

41.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

42.

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

43.

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

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Who, Dr.

45.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

47.

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

48.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

49.

Hazzard, Shirley

50.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund