Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Jameson, Anna

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

10.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

11.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

13.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

14.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

15.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

16.

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

Dogen

17.

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

18.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

20.

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

Sam Levenson

21.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

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

Plomp, John

24.

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

Morley, Christopher

25.

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

Dick Cavett

26.

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

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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

28.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

29.

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

Crane, Monta

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

Bruce Barton

32.

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

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.

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

35.

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

36.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

39.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.