Motivational Quotes

Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Children

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Who, Dr.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

10.

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

Peter Ustinov

11.

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

Robert Orben

12.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

13.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

14.

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

Gray, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

17.

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

18.

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

Chase, Alexander

19.

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

John J. Plomp

20.

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

21.

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

Hunt, Leigh

22.

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

23.

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

Jameson, Anna

24.

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

25.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

26.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

30.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

31.

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

32.

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

Edwards, Harry

33.

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

Bruce Barton

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Robert Byrne

36.

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

37.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

40.

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

Mead, Margaret

41.

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

42.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

44.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

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

46.

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

Plomp, John

47.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

48.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

49.

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

Capp, Al

50.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne