Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mary MacCracken

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Wiesel, Elie

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

12.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

13.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.

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

15.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

16.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

19.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

20.

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

Peter Ustinov

21.

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

Mead, Margaret

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

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

Lewin, Roger

26.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Rabbinical Saying

30.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

31.

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

32.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

33.

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

Proverb

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

37.

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

Abbott, Lyman

38.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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.

40.

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

John J. Plomp

41.

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

42.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

43.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

44.

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

45.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

46.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jameson, Anna

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