Motivational Quotes

Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Moses, Robert

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

Montessori, Maria

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

10.

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

11.

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

Groucho Marx

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

17.

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

18.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

21.

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

22.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

23.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

24.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Wiesel, Elie

27.

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

Peter Ustinov

28.

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.

29.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

31.

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

32.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

38.

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

Robert Orben

39.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

40.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

41.

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

42.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

43.

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

Abbott, Lyman

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

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

46.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

47.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

48.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

49.

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