Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Children

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

John J. Plomp

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Bible

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

10.

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

11.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

12.

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

Dick Cavett

13.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

14.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

15.

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

16.

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

Crane, Monta

17.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

18.

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

Bruce Barton

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Phyllis Diller

24.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

25.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

26.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

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.

39.

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

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

41.

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

Ball, Lucille

42.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

43.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

44.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

48.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

49.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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

Who, Dr.