Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

Proverb

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

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

John Gray

13.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

14.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

15.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

16.

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

Moses, Robert

17.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

18.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

19.

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

Hulbert, Harold

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

22.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

29.

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

Kraus, Karl

30.

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

31.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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.

Anna Quindlen

36.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

37.

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

38.

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

Dogen

39.

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

40.

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

Robert Orben

41.

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

42.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

43.

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

Rabbinical Saying

44.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

45.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

46.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

47.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

49.

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

50.

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