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

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

Epictetus

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Robert Orben

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

10.

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

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Plomp, John

17.

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

18.

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

King Edward VIII

19.

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

Dogen

20.

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

21.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

22.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

23.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

24.

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

25.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

26.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

27.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

28.

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

29.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

30.

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

Wiesel, Elie

31.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

32.

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

Dorothy Parker

33.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

34.

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

Sam Levenson

35.

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

36.

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

Chase, Alexander

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Lewin, Roger

40.

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

41.

It takes three to make a child.

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

42.

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

43.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

46.

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

John Gray

47.

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

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

Hunt, Leigh

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, English