Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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 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

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.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

Jameson, Anna

13.

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

Rabbinical Saying

14.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

15.

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

Wilmot, John

16.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

17.

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

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

20.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

21.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

22.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

23.

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

Watts, Isaac

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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

25.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

27.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

28.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Robert Orben

34.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

35.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

36.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

37.

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

Wiesel, Elie

38.

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

39.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

40.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

41.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

42.

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

Plomp, John

43.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

44.

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

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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

47.

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

Ruskin, John

48.

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

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia