Motivational Quotes

Children

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Children

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

14.

It takes three to make a child.

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

15.

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

Hunt, Leigh

16.

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

17.

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

18.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

19.

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

Plomp, John

20.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

21.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

22.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

23.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

26.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

29.

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

Norman Douglas

30.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

31.

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

Jameson, Anna

32.

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

Dogen

33.

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

34.

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

Morley, Christopher

35.

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

Fran Lebowitz

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Moustakas, Clark

39.

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

Bruce Barton

40.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

41.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

42.

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

43.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

44.

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

45.

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

King Edward VIII

46.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

47.

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

Groucho Marx

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