Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Groucho Marx

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Proverb

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

Watts, Isaac

10.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

12.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

It takes three to make a child.

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

20.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

21.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

22.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

23.

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

Gray, Thomas

24.

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

Jameson, Anna

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Chase, Alexander

28.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

29.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

30.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

Dogen

32.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

34.

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

Abbott, Lyman

35.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

36.

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

37.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

38.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

39.

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

Edwards, Harry

40.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

41.

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

Robert Orben

42.

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

43.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

44.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

45.

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

46.

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

Pope, Alexander

47.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

48.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

49.

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

50.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.