Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Children

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

Moses, Robert

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

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

Dorothy Parker

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

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

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

10.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

11.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

12.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

13.

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

Crane, Monta

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

15.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

16.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

17.

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

18.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

19.

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

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

21.

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

Montessori, Maria

22.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

23.

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

24.

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

Groucho Marx

25.

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

26.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

27.

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

28.

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

Kraus, Karl

29.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

31.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

33.

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

Abbott, Lyman

34.

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

Sam Levenson

35.

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

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

Baldwin, James

37.

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

38.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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

42.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

43.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

44.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

46.

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Chase, Alexander

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