Motivational Quotes

Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Long, Lazarus

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pope, Alexander

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Churchill, Winston

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Wilde, Oscar

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

10.

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

11.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Edwards, Harry

13.

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

Peter Ustinov

14.

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

15.

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

John Gray

16.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

17.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

20.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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

25.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

26.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Lewin, Roger

31.

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

32.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

35.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

36.

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

37.

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

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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

39.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

40.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

41.

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

42.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

43.

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

Jameson, Anna

44.

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

45.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

46.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

47.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

49.

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

50.

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