Motivational Quotes

Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

- Robertson Davies

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ruskin, John

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Rabbinical Saying

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Chase, Alexander

16.

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

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

19.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

20.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

22.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

23.

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

24.

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

26.

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

Watts, Isaac

27.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

28.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

29.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

Norman Douglas

32.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

33.

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

34.

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

Crane, Monta

35.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

38.

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

39.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

40.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

41.

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

Wilmot, John

42.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

43.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

44.

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

Fran Lebowitz

45.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

46.

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

47.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

48.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

49.

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

Oscar Wilde

50.

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