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

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

Moses, Robert

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Fran Lebowitz

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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 test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

10.

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

Groucho Marx

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

13.

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

14.

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

Wiesel, Elie

15.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Plomp, John

20.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

21.

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

22.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

23.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

26.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

27.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

28.

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

29.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

30.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

32.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

33.

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

Oscar Wilde

34.

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

35.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

37.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

40.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

41.

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

Robert Byrne

42.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

43.

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

Morley, Christopher

44.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

45.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

47.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

48.

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

49.

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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John