Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

10.

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

11.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

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

Montessori, Maria

13.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

14.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

15.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

18.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

Nash, Ogden

21.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

22.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

27.

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

28.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

29.

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

30.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

31.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

John Gray

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Ball, Lucille

37.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

38.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

39.

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

40.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

41.

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

42.

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

Bombeck, Erma

43.

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

Groucho Marx

44.

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

45.

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

Fran Lebowitz

46.

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

47.

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

Robert Byrne

48.

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

Mead, Margaret

49.

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

50.

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

Dick Cavett