Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Bible

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

10.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

11.

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

12.

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

Robert Byrne

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

15.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

16.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

18.

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

Wiesel, Elie

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Mead, Margaret

22.

It takes three to make a child.

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

23.

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

Ovid

24.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

25.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

26.

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

Bombeck, Erma

27.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

28.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

Proverb, English

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Parker, Dorothy

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

37.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

38.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

Plomp, John

40.

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

Jameson, Anna

41.

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

Picasso, Pablo

42.

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

Norman Douglas

43.

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

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

45.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

46.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

47.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

48.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.