Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jameson, Anna

Best Quotes about Children

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

King Edward VIII

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Groucho Marx

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

Baldwin, James

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Rabbinical Saying

12.

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

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Hunt, Leigh

18.

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

Robert Orben

19.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

20.

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

21.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

24.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

25.

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

Baldwin, James

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Montessori, Maria

32.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

33.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

34.

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

35.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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

Sam Levenson

37.

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

38.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

43.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

44.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

45.

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

Phyllis Diller

46.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

47.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

48.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.