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

Best Quotes about Children
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
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
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope, Alexander
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Morley, Christopher
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Wilmot, John
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
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverb, English
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
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Moses, Robert
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Wilde, Oscar
That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.
Greg Garcia
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Proverb, English
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
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
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
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Edwards, Harry
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Dyer, Wayne
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
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Proverb
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
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Baldwin, James
Children are the keys of paradise.
Stoddard, Richard Henry
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
Angelou, Maya
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Freud, Sigmund
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
Rich, Adrienne
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
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
It's fun being a kid.
Angier, Bradford Arthur
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
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Jones, Franklin P.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Abbott, Lyman
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
Baldwin, James
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Buck, Pearl S.
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
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Churchill, Winston
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
Pollok, Robert
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas
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