Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hulbert, Harold

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

10.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

11.

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

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

14.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

15.

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

16.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

19.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

20.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

27.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

28.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

29.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

30.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

31.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

34.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

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

37.

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

Oscar Wilde

38.

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

Dorothy Parker

39.

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

40.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

41.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

42.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

45.

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

John J. Plomp

46.

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

Moustakas, Clark

47.

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

Rabbinical Saying

48.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

49.

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

Lawana Blackwell

50.

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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