Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Proverb, English

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Groucho Marx

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Crane, Monta

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

Wilmot, John

10.

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

Bombeck, Erma

11.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

12.

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

13.

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

Sam Levenson

14.

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

Wiesel, Elie

15.

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

Mead, Margaret

16.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

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

18.

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

Morley, Christopher

19.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

20.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

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

22.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

23.

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

King Edward VIII

24.

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

25.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

26.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

27.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

37.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

38.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Norman Douglas

45.

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

Groucho Marx

46.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

47.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold