Motivational Quotes
Children
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.

Best Quotes about Children
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Edwards, Harry
There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
Who, Dr.
Adults are obsolete children.
Seuss, Dr.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Baldwin, James
Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
Gray, Thomas
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Behn, Aphra
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]
Bible
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope, Alexander
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
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jackson, Jesse
Never have children, only grand children.
Vidal, Gore
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Gibran, Kahlil
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Shakespeare, William
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal
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
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
The child is the father of the man.
Wordsworth, William
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Hulbert, Harold
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Wiesel, Elie
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
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Jones, Franklin P.
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Morley, Christopher
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
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
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
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Proverb, English
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Mead, Margaret
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Kennedy, John F.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Picasso, Pablo
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.
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
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Churchill, Winston
Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Wilde, Oscar
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Jones, Franklin P.
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
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
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
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
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Novalis
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Dyer, Wayne
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