Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Robert Orben

10.

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

Dogen

11.

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

Rabbinical Saying

12.

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

13.

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

Ball, Lucille

14.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

15.

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

Robert Byrne

16.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

17.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

18.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

19.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

20.

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

21.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

22.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

23.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

24.

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

Wilmot, John

25.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

26.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

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

Peter Ustinov

28.

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

29.

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

Abbott, Lyman

30.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

31.

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

32.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

34.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

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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

37.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

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

Dorothy Parker

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Plomp, John

44.

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

Gray, Thomas

45.

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

46.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

48.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

49.

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

Edwards, Harry

50.

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