Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

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

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Dick Cavett

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

10.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

13.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

14.

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

15.

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

17.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

18.

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

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

20.

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

Bible

21.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

23.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

25.

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

26.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

27.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

28.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

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

36.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

37.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

38.

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

Capp, Al

39.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

42.

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

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

44.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

45.

It takes three to make a child.

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

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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.