Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Children

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

13.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

14.

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

15.

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

Groucho Marx

16.

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

17.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

18.

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

Hulbert, Harold

19.

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

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

22.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

23.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

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

25.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

26.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

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

Wilmot, John

28.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

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

33.

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

Robert Orben

34.

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

35.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

36.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

37.

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

Who, Dr.

38.

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

39.

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

John J. Plomp

40.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

41.

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

42.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

43.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

44.

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

45.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

46.

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

Montessori, Maria

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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

48.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

49.

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

50.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess