Motivational Quotes

Children

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

- Spolin, Viola

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Epictetus

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Watts, Isaac

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Ball, Lucille

10.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

11.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

12.

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

13.

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

Nash, Ogden

14.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

15.

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

16.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

17.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

18.

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

Lewin, Roger

19.

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

20.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

21.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

22.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

24.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

25.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

26.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

27.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

28.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

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

King Edward VIII

33.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

35.

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

36.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

38.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

39.

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

Abbott, Lyman

40.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

41.

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

Baldwin, James

42.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

43.

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

Daniel Raeburn

44.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

45.

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

46.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

47.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

48.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, English