Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Ball, Lucille

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

10.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

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

12.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

15.

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

Rabbinical Saying

16.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

17.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

18.

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

Groucho Marx

19.

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

20.

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

Peter Ustinov

21.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

22.

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

Robert Orben

23.

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

Dogen

24.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

25.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

26.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

27.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

28.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

29.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

30.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

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

Morley, Christopher

32.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

33.

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

34.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

36.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

37.

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

Eliot, George

38.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

39.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

40.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

41.

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

Wilmot, John

42.

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

Moses, Robert

43.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

44.

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

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

48.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

49.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

50.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge