Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

Ovid

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

John Gray

11.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

12.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Kraus, Karl

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

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

Montessori, Maria

17.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

18.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

19.

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

Dorothy Parker

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

23.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

24.

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

25.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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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

29.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

30.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

31.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

32.

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

33.

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

Fran Lebowitz

34.

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

Chase, Alexander

35.

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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

38.

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

Robert Byrne

39.

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

40.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

41.

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

Proverb

42.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

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

Waitley, Denis

45.

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

King Edward VIII

46.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

47.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

48.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

49.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson