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

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Wilmot, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

10.

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

Abbott, Lyman

11.

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

Plomp, John

12.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

17.

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

Dorothy Parker

18.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

19.

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

Edwards, Harry

20.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

21.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

22.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

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

25.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

26.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

27.

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

28.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

29.

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

30.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

31.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

37.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Gray, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

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

Baldwin, James

45.

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.

46.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

47.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

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

49.

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.