Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Capp, Al

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Robert Orben

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

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

10.

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

Ball, Lucille

11.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

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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

15.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

16.

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

17.

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

Nash, Ogden

18.

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

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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

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

22.

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

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

24.

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

25.

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

Ovid

26.

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.

27.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

28.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

29.

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

Dorothy Parker

30.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

31.

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

Morley, Christopher

32.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

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

Baldwin, James

34.

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

35.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

Groucho Marx

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

44.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Angelou, Maya

48.

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

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