Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Epictetus

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

10.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

11.

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

Lewin, Roger

12.

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

13.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

14.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

17.

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

18.

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

Chase, Alexander

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

26.

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

King Edward VIII

27.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

30.

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

Rabbinical Saying

31.

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

Hunt, Leigh

32.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

33.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

34.

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

John J. Plomp

35.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

36.

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

37.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

38.

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

39.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

40.

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

41.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

42.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

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

47.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

48.

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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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

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas