Motivational Quotes

Children

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Ovid

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

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

10.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

11.

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

12.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

13.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

15.

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

16.

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

Hunt, Leigh

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

22.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

24.

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

25.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

26.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

27.

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

28.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

29.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

30.

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

31.

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

Lawana Blackwell

32.

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

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.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

35.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

36.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

37.

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

38.

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

Groucho Marx

39.

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

Wilmot, John

40.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

41.

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

Norman Douglas

42.

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

43.

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

Dorothy Parker

44.

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

Chase, Alexander

45.

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

Montessori, Maria

46.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

50.

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