Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

John Gray

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

10.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

11.

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

12.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

13.

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

14.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

15.

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

16.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Plomp, John

19.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

20.

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

Robert Orben

21.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

22.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

23.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

24.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Wiesel, Elie

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Peter Ustinov

34.

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

Edwards, Harry

35.

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

Oscar Wilde

36.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

37.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

42.

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

Moses, Robert

43.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

46.

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

Who, Dr.

47.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

48.

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