Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Children

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

John J. Plomp

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their 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.

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

11.

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

12.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

13.

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

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

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

Wilmot, John

17.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

18.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

19.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

20.

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

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

24.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

25.

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

26.

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

Dorothy Parker

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

29.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

33.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

34.

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

35.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

36.

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

37.

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

Groucho Marx

38.

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

Robert Orben

39.

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

Hulbert, Harold

40.

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

41.

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

Moustakas, Clark

42.

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

43.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

44.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

45.

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

46.

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

Ziglar, Zig

47.

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.

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