Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jameson, Anna

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

13.

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

14.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

16.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

17.

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

Robert Orben

18.

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

Fran Lebowitz

19.

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

20.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

21.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

25.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

26.

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

Dogen

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

31.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

32.

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

33.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

Plomp, John

36.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

37.

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

38.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

39.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

43.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

44.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

47.

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

Edwards, Harry

48.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

49.

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

Phyllis Diller

50.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.