Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Baldwin, James

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

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

Watts, Isaac

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

John J. Plomp

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

Moses, Robert

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Crane, Monta

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

Robert Byrne

10.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

11.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

12.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Capp, Al

14.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

15.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Kraus, Karl

17.

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

Who, Dr.

18.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

19.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

20.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

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

Ball, Lucille

22.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

23.

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.

24.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

25.

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

John Gray

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

30.

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

31.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

32.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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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

35.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

36.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

37.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

38.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

41.

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

42.

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

43.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

48.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

49.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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