Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Jameson, Anna

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, English

13.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

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

22.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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

Bruce Barton

24.

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

Moustakas, Clark

25.

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

Rabbinical Saying

26.

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

Peter Ustinov

27.

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

John J. Plomp

28.

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

Groucho Marx

29.

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

Watts, Isaac

30.

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.

31.

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

Gray, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

34.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

35.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

36.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

37.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

38.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

39.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

40.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

41.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

50.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison