Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Children

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ruskin, John

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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

Fran Lebowitz

12.

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

13.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

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.

16.

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

Baldwin, James

17.

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

18.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

24.

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

Parker, Dorothy

25.

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

26.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

28.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

29.

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

30.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

32.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

37.

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

38.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

46.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

47.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

48.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go