Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Groucho Marx

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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.

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

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

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

Morley, Christopher

16.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

17.

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

18.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

19.

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

20.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

21.

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

22.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

23.

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.

24.

It takes three to make a child.

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

25.

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

26.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

27.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

28.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

29.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

30.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

32.

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

33.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

34.

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

Hulbert, Harold

35.

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

36.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

37.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

38.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

39.

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

Watts, Isaac

40.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

41.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

42.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

43.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

44.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

45.

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

Wiesel, Elie

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

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

49.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

50.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus