Motivational Quotes

Children

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

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

Wilmot, John

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Eliot, George

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

10.

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

11.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

12.

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

13.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

14.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

15.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

18.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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

Hunt, Leigh

20.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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.

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

Oscar Wilde

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

24.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

25.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

26.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

33.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

34.

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

Robert Orben

35.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

36.

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

37.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

38.

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

Ovid

39.

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

40.

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

Abbott, Lyman

41.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

42.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

43.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

44.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

45.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

46.

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

Groucho Marx

47.

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

Crane, Monta

48.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Lewin, Roger