Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Morley, Christopher

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Lewin, Roger

10.

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

Hulbert, Harold

11.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

12.

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

13.

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

King Edward VIII

14.

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

15.

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

Robert Orben

16.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

17.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

18.

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

Robert Byrne

19.

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

Wilmot, John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

23.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Wiesel, Elie

27.

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

28.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

29.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Edwards, Harry

31.

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

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

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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

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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

38.

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

Groucho Marx

39.

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

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Moustakas, Clark

41.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

42.

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

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

46.

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

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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

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

Mary MacCracken

49.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.