Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Jordan, June

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Robert Orben

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lewin, Roger

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

11.

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

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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

13.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

14.

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

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

20.

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

21.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

25.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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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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

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

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

31.

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

Wilmot, John

32.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

33.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

Plomp, John

35.

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

Hulbert, Harold

36.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

37.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Bible

43.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

44.

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

45.

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

Baldwin, James

46.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

47.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.