Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hulbert, Harold

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Groucho Marx

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

10.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

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

12.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

13.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

14.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

15.

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

Wilmot, John

16.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

17.

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

Montessori, Maria

18.

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

19.

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

Plomp, John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

24.

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

25.

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

Phyllis Diller

26.

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

27.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Eliot, George

31.

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

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

34.

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

Rabbinical Saying

35.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

39.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

40.

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

Capp, Al

41.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

42.

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

Proverb, English

43.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

44.

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

45.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

46.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

50.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De