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

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

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Capp, Al

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

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

10.

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

11.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

12.

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

Lewin, Roger

13.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

14.

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

15.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Groucho Marx

18.

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

19.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

20.

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

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

27.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

28.

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

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

30.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

32.

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

Ball, Lucille

33.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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.

Dogen

36.

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

Baldwin, James

37.

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

Edwards, Harry

38.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

39.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

40.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

41.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

42.

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

Proverb, English

43.

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

44.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

45.

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

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

49.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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