Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Children

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

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Capp, Al

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

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

10.

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

11.

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

Groucho Marx

12.

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

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

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

15.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

16.

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

Moustakas, Clark

17.

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

Rabbinical Saying

18.

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

Angelou, Maya

19.

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

20.

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

Morley, Christopher

21.

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

Fran Lebowitz

22.

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

23.

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

Phyllis Diller

24.

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

25.

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

Bruce Barton

26.

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

Groucho Marx

27.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

28.

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

29.

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

Kraus, Karl

30.

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

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

33.

It takes three to make a child.

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

34.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

35.

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

36.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Proverb, English

39.

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

40.

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

Crane, Monta

41.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

42.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

47.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

49.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

50.

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

Robert Orben