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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Moustakas, Clark

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Bible

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

10.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

11.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

14.

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

Crane, Monta

15.

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

16.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

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

Abbott, Lyman

22.

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

23.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

24.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

25.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

26.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

30.

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

Morley, Christopher

31.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

32.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

33.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

34.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

35.

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

Plomp, John

36.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

39.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

41.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

42.

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

Picasso, Pablo

43.

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

44.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

45.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

46.

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

47.

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

Bombeck, Erma

48.

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

Lewin, Roger

49.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

50.

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