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

Best Quotes about Children
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Freud, Sigmund
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
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
Pollok, Robert
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Behn, Aphra
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
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Bombeck, Erma
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
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
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
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
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Nash, Ogden
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
Adams, John
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Fielding, Henry
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
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Smith, Logan Pearsall
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
Never have children, only grand children.
Vidal, Gore
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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
Saki
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Churchill, Winston
Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
Hope, Bob
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Humphrey, Hubert H.
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
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Shakespeare, William
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Wilmot, John
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
Eliot, George
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
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
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
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
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Kraus, Karl
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Picasso, Pablo
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Ball, Lucille
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverb, English
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Lamb, Mary
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
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
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
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
Children always turn to the light.
Hare, David
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Baldwin, James
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
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