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

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

King Edward VIII

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

Dogen

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

Bible

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dick Cavett

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Baldwin, James

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

10.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

11.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

12.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

13.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

14.

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

Wiesel, Elie

15.

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

16.

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

John J. Plomp

17.

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

18.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

19.

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

Hunt, Leigh

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

24.

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

Montessori, Maria

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

29.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

30.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

Fran Lebowitz

32.

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

Norman Douglas

33.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

34.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

35.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

36.

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

37.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

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

40.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

41.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

43.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

47.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

Nash, Ogden

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