Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

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

John Gray

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

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

Epictetus

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

John J. Plomp

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

Bible

It takes three to make a child.

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

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

10.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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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

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

22.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

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

25.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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

27.

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

Peter Ustinov

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Bombeck, Erma

31.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

33.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

34.

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

35.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Waitley, Denis

39.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

40.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

41.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

42.

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

Capp, Al

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

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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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

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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

49.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

50.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki