Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lewin, Roger

Best Quotes about Children

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

Watts, Isaac

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Plomp, John

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Groucho Marx

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

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

Abbott, Lyman

13.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

14.

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

15.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Dogen

17.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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

19.

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

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

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

King Edward VIII

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

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

Crane, Monta

27.

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

Wilmot, John

28.

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

Peter Ustinov

29.

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

30.

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

Moses, Robert

31.

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

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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

33.

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

John J. Plomp

34.

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

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

Bruce Barton

36.

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

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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.

38.

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

Robert Orben

39.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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

Baldwin, James

41.

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

42.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

44.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

45.

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

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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

47.

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

48.

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

Sam Levenson

49.

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

50.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson