Motivational Quotes

Children

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Wilmot, John

10.

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

11.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

12.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

13.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Picasso, Pablo

15.

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

Jameson, Anna

16.

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.

17.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

18.

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

Ruskin, John

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.

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

21.

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

22.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

23.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

26.

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

27.

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

Groucho Marx

28.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

30.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

31.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

32.

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

Phyllis Diller

33.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

34.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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.

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

37.

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

Mead, Margaret

38.

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

39.

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

Baldwin, James

40.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

41.

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

Edwards, Harry

42.

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

John J. Plomp

43.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

44.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

45.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

46.

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

Wiesel, Elie

47.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

48.

Where children are, there is the golden age.