Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Plomp, John

12.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

13.

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

14.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

15.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

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

Groucho Marx

22.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

23.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

24.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

25.

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

John J. Plomp

26.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

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

Ovid

32.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

36.

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

Lewin, Roger

37.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

38.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

39.

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