Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Groucho Marx

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

14.

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

15.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

16.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Parker, Dorothy

18.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

19.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

20.

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

21.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

22.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

23.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

24.

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

25.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Peter Ustinov

28.

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

29.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

30.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

31.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

32.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

33.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

42.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

44.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

45.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

46.

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

47.

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

48.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

49.

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

50.

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