Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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

Mead, Margaret

14.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

15.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

16.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

18.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

19.

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

Plomp, John

20.

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

Capp, Al

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

25.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

26.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

28.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

29.

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

Oscar Wilde

30.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Kraus, Karl

33.

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

Wiesel, Elie

34.

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

Bombeck, Erma

35.

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

Mary MacCracken

36.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

37.

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

Morley, Christopher

38.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

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

40.

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

Groucho Marx

41.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

42.

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

Norman Douglas

43.

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

Daniel Raeburn

44.

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

45.

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

Rabbinical Saying

46.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

47.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

48.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

49.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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