Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Moses, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Robert Byrne

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their 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

10.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

11.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

12.

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

Robert Orben

13.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

14.

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

Mary MacCracken

15.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

17.

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

Wilmot, John

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

22.

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

Jameson, Anna

23.

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

24.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

25.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

26.

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

27.

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

28.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

29.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

30.

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

Groucho Marx

31.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

32.

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

33.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

34.

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

John J. Plomp

35.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

36.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

37.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

38.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

39.

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

40.

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

Robert Orben

41.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

42.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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

47.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

48.

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

Lewin, Roger

49.

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

Dogen

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