Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

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

Wilde, Oscar

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Proverb, English

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

10.

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

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

John J. Plomp

13.

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

Nash, Ogden

14.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

15.

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

16.

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

Mead, Margaret

17.

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

18.

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

Wiesel, Elie

19.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

20.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

21.

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

22.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

23.

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

Watts, Isaac

24.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

25.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

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

Dick Cavett

32.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

33.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

34.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

38.

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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

40.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

41.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

42.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

46.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

47.

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

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.