Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Oscar Wilde

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

10.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

11.

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

Robert Orben

12.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

14.

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

Hunt, Leigh

15.

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

16.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

17.

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

18.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

19.

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

Daniel Raeburn

20.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

22.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

23.

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

Dick Cavett

24.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

25.

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

26.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

27.

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

Morley, Christopher

28.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

30.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

31.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

32.

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

Sam Levenson

33.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Rabbinical Saying

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

41.

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

Norman Douglas

42.

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

Ruskin, John

43.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

44.

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

45.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

46.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

47.

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

Eliot, George

48.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

49.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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