Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilmot, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

15.

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

Montessori, Maria

16.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

17.

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

Wilmot, John

18.

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

19.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

20.

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

Hulbert, Harold

21.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

22.

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.

23.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

24.

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

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

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

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

John J. Plomp

29.

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

Phyllis Diller

30.

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

Nash, Ogden

31.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

32.

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

33.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

34.

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

King Edward VIII

35.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

36.

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.

Greg Garcia

37.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

38.

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

39.

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

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Rabbinical Saying

41.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

42.

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

Robert Orben

43.

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

44.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

45.

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

Crane, Monta

46.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

47.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

48.

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

Plomp, John

49.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

50.

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.