Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Plomp, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Wilmot, John

It takes three to make a child.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mead, Margaret

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Dick Cavett

13.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

14.

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

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

16.

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

Ovid

17.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

18.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

19.

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

Edwards, Harry

20.

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

21.

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

Ziglar, Zig

22.

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

John J. Plomp

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

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.

27.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

28.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

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

Phyllis Diller

30.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Groucho Marx

32.

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

33.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

34.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

35.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Dogen

42.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

44.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Robert Byrne

46.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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