Motivational Quotes

Children

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Children

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

Kraus, Karl

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

King Edward VIII

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

10.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Plomp, John

15.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

16.

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

Ziglar, Zig

17.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

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

19.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Bombeck, Erma

21.

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

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

24.

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

Proverb, English

25.

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

26.

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

27.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

28.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

29.

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

30.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

31.

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

John Gray

32.

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

Baldwin, James

33.

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

Jameson, Anna

34.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

35.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

Sam Levenson

37.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

38.

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

39.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

40.

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

John J. Plomp

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

44.

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

45.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

46.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

47.

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

48.

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

Capp, Al

49.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

50.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.