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

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

Dogen

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

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

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

10.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

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

Montessori, Maria

12.

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

Sam Levenson

13.

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

Watts, Isaac

14.

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

15.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

16.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

17.

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

Capp, Al

18.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

Moses, Robert

22.

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

23.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

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

Lewin, Roger

28.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

29.

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

30.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

31.

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

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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

33.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

34.

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

35.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

36.

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

37.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

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

39.

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

Crane, Monta

40.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

41.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.