Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Crane, Monta

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb

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

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

10.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

11.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

12.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

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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

15.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

16.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

19.

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

Plomp, John

20.

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

Wilmot, John

21.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

23.

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

John J. Plomp

24.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

25.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

26.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

28.

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

Edwards, Harry

29.

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

Hunt, Leigh

30.

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

Robert Byrne

31.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

43.

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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

45.

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

46.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

47.

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

Norman Douglas

48.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

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

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