Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Groucho Marx

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Freud, Sigmund

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

10.

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

11.

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

Watts, Isaac

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

14.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

15.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

16.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

22.

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

Ball, Lucille

23.

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

24.

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

Hunt, Leigh

25.

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

Wilmot, John

26.

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

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

33.

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

34.

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

Peter Ustinov

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

36.

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

Dogen

37.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

38.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

42.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Groucho Marx

48.

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

John Gray

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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