Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Rabbinical Saying

Best Quotes about Children

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

10.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

12.

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

13.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

14.

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

Morley, Christopher

15.

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

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

Watts, Isaac

17.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

18.

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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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

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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

21.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

22.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

23.

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.

24.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

25.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

26.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

27.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

29.

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

30.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

31.

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

32.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

33.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

Plomp, John

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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

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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

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

Groucho Marx

39.

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

40.

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

Waitley, Denis

41.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

42.

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

John Gray

43.

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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

45.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

46.

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

Ruskin, John

47.

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

48.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

49.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

50.

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