Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lewin, Roger

Best Quotes about Children

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

10.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

John Gray

14.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

15.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

16.

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

Hunt, Leigh

17.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

19.

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

20.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

21.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

22.

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

23.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

24.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

25.

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

Dick Cavett

26.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

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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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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

31.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

32.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

33.

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

Phyllis Diller

34.

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

35.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

36.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

38.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Oscar Wilde

42.

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

Lawana Blackwell

43.

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

44.

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

Angelou, Maya

45.

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

Fran Lebowitz

46.

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

47.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

49.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

50.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston