Motivational Quotes

Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

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

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

12.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

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

Hunt, Leigh

16.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

17.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

24.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

26.

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

27.

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

Morley, Christopher

28.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

29.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

30.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

31.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

32.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

33.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

34.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

35.

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

36.

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

John Gray

37.

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

38.

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

39.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

40.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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

42.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

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

Wiesel, Elie

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Phyllis Diller