Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

1.

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

Abbott, Lyman

2.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

3.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

4.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

5.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

6.

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

Peter Ustinov

7.

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

John J. Plomp

8.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

9.

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

Ruskin, John

10.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

11.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

12.

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

13.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

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

17.

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

Lewin, Roger

18.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

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

Bombeck, Erma

20.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

21.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

22.

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

23.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

24.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

25.

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

26.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

27.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

28.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

31.

It takes three to make a child.

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

32.

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

Fran Lebowitz

33.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

37.

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

Freud, Sigmund

38.

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