Motivational Quotes

Children

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Crane, Monta

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

Robert Byrne

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

10.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

13.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

14.

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

Daniel Raeburn

15.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

16.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

24.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Lewin, Roger

28.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

29.

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

30.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

33.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

34.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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

Montessori, Maria

36.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

37.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

38.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

39.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

40.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Baldwin, James

49.

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

50.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery