Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hulbert, Harold

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

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

Plomp, John

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Morley, Christopher

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Peter Ustinov

13.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

14.

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

Robert Byrne

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

17.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

18.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

19.

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

20.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Robert Orben

22.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

23.

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

24.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

25.

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

26.

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

Fran Lebowitz

27.

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

Hunt, Leigh

28.

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

29.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

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

Phyllis Diller

31.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

32.

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

Rabbinical Saying

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

36.

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

37.

It takes three to make a child.

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

38.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

41.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

42.

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

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

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

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

47.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

48.

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

49.

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

Norman Douglas

50.

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