Motivational Quotes

Children

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ovid

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

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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

Dorothy Parker

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

10.

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

11.

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

Wilmot, John

12.

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

Rabbinical Saying

13.

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

Groucho Marx

14.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

15.

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

16.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

18.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

19.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

21.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

22.

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

Pope, Alexander

23.

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

Lewin, Roger

24.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

25.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

26.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

27.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

29.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

30.

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

31.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

32.

It takes three to make a child.

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

33.

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

34.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

35.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

38.

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

39.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

40.

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

Bruce Barton

41.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

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

King Edward VIII

45.

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

Waitley, Denis

46.

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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

48.

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

Parker, Dorothy

49.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

50.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.