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

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

Bible

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

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

11.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

12.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

13.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

14.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

15.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

16.

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

Wiesel, Elie

17.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

18.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

19.

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

Norman Douglas

20.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

21.

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

King Edward VIII

22.

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

Daniel Raeburn

23.

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.

24.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

25.

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

26.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

27.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

28.

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

Watts, Isaac

29.

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

30.

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

Fran Lebowitz

31.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

32.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

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

34.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

36.

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

37.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

39.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

40.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

43.

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

Nash, Ogden

44.

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

Plomp, John

45.

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

Mead, Margaret

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