Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Wilmot, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Dorothy Parker

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

11.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

12.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

14.

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

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

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

17.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

18.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

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

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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

23.

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

24.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

25.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

Who, Dr.

27.

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

28.

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

Moses, Robert

29.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

31.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

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

Morley, Christopher

33.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

35.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

36.

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

Sam Levenson

37.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

38.

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

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

43.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

44.

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

Montessori, Maria

45.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

46.

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

47.

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

48.

It takes three to make a child.

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

49.

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

Moustakas, Clark

50.

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