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.

- Wilder, Thornton

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

10.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

12.

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

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fran Lebowitz

15.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

19.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

20.

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

Wiesel, Elie

21.

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

22.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

23.

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

Morley, Christopher

24.

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

25.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

26.

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

27.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

29.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

31.

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

Dorothy Parker

32.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

33.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

34.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

35.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

36.

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

Picasso, Pablo

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

43.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

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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

48.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

49.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

50.

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