Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

11.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

12.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

13.

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

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

18.

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

Wilmot, John

19.

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

Groucho Marx

20.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

21.

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

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

23.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

King Edward VIII

29.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

34.

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

Baldwin, James

35.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

36.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

37.

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

38.

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

Fran Lebowitz

39.

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

Bombeck, Erma

40.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

44.

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

45.

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

Gray, Thomas

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.