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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Sam Levenson

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

Gray, Thomas

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

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

Fran Lebowitz

11.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

12.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

14.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

15.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

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

Who, Dr.

17.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

18.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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.

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

Parker, Dorothy

21.

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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

23.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

24.

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

Montessori, Maria

25.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

26.

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

27.

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

Ball, Lucille

28.

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

Groucho Marx

29.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

31.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

34.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

35.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

36.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

40.

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

41.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

42.

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

43.

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

Crane, Monta

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

47.

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

48.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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