Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Wilmot, John

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Morley, Christopher

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Baldwin, James

13.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

16.

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

17.

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

Groucho Marx

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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.

20.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

21.

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

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

24.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

25.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

26.

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

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

29.

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

Daniel Raeburn

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

33.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

34.

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

35.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

36.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

37.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

38.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

39.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

40.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

41.

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

42.

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

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

44.

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

45.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

46.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

47.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

48.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

49.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

50.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell