Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Dogen

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

Wilde, Oscar

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

13.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

14.

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

15.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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

Lewin, Roger

17.

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

18.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

19.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

20.

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

Gray, Thomas

21.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

22.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

23.

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

24.

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

King Edward VIII

25.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

26.

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

27.

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

Phyllis Diller

28.

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

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Moses, Robert

31.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

37.

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

Groucho Marx

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

Who, Dr.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Peter Ustinov

43.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

44.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

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

46.

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

Morley, Christopher

47.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

48.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

49.

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

50.

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