Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

13.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

14.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

15.

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

16.

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

Groucho Marx

17.

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

18.

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

Morley, Christopher

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

25.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

26.

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

Robert Byrne

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Wilmot, John

30.

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

Angelou, Maya

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

34.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

36.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

37.

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

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

41.

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

Mead, Margaret

42.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

43.

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

Norman Douglas

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

John J. Plomp

47.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph