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

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Hunt, Leigh

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

10.

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

Mary MacCracken

11.

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

12.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

13.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

16.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.

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

18.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

19.

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

Wiesel, Elie

20.

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

Rabbinical Saying

21.

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

22.

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

Robert Orben

23.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

28.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

29.

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.

30.

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

Peter Ustinov

31.

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

32.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

33.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

34.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

35.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

36.

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

Hulbert, Harold

37.

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

38.

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

Bombeck, Erma

39.

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

40.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

41.

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

42.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

43.

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

44.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

45.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

46.

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

47.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

48.

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

49.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

50.

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