Motivational Quotes
Children
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.

Best Quotes about Children
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
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Humphrey, Hubert H.
What is done to children, they will do to society.
Menninger, Karl A.
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Behn, Aphra
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
It takes three to make a child.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)
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
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
What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Jones, Franklin P.
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
Key, Ellen
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
Ruskin, John
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
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
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Updike, John
Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Waitley, Denis
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
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Picasso, Pablo
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
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Gibran, Kahlil
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
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Tauscher, Stacia
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Freud, Sigmund
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Ziglar, Zig
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Bombeck, Erma
Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
Angelou, Maya
Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
Watts, Isaac
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Edwards, Harry
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
Crane, Monta
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Rutherford, Samuel
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
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
Saki
Never have children, only grand children.
Vidal, Gore
Children need models rather than critics.
Joubert, Joseph
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Fielding, Henry
Children are poor men's riches.
Ray, John
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Ruskin, John
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