Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ovid

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

10.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

16.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

17.

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

18.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

21.

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

Freud, Sigmund

22.

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

23.

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

Robert Orben

24.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

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

Dorothy Parker

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

28.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

29.

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

Peter Ustinov

30.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.

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

32.

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

Bruce Barton

33.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

34.

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

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.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

37.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

38.

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

Abbott, Lyman

41.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

42.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

43.

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

44.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

45.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

46.

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

47.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

48.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

49.

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

50.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb