Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

1.

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

Wiesel, Elie

2.

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

3.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Fran Lebowitz

5.

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

Pope, Alexander

6.

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

Morley, Christopher

7.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

8.

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

9.

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

10.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

11.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

12.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

13.

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

Norman Douglas

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

19.

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

20.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

21.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

24.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

25.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

26.

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

Daniel Raeburn

27.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

28.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

It takes three to make a child.

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

30.

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

Kraus, Karl

31.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

32.

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

33.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

34.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

35.

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

Mead, Margaret

36.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

37.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

38.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

39.

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

Dorothy Parker

40.

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

41.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

42.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

43.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

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