Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- William Shakespeare

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Wilmot, John

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

John J. Plomp

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Hunt, Leigh

11.

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

Plomp, John

12.

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

13.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

14.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

15.

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

16.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

19.

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

Sam Levenson

20.

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

Montessori, Maria

21.

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

Mary MacCracken

22.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

24.

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

Freud, Sigmund

25.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

26.

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

27.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

28.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

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

30.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

31.

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

Dogen

32.

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

33.

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

Fran Lebowitz

34.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

35.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

36.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

37.

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

Bible

38.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

Wiesel, Elie

40.

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

41.

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

Moustakas, Clark

42.

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

Edwards, Harry

43.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

44.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

47.

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

Dorothy Parker

48.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.