Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

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

Dick Cavett

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Edwards, Harry

10.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

11.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Moses, Robert

16.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

23.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

24.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

26.

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

27.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

28.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

29.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

30.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

31.

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

Phyllis Diller

32.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

34.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

35.

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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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

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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

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Abbott, Lyman

41.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

44.

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

John J. Plomp

45.

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

46.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mead, Margaret

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