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

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

Hunt, Leigh

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

13.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

16.

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

17.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

20.

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

John J. Plomp

21.

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

Capp, Al

22.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

23.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

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

Dorothy Parker

25.

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

26.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

31.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

32.

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

33.

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

34.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

35.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

39.

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

Gray, Thomas

40.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

41.

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

Rabbinical Saying

42.

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

43.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

44.

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

Groucho Marx

45.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

46.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

47.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

49.

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

Proverb, English

50.

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

Wilmot, John