Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

10.

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

John J. Plomp

11.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

12.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

15.

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

Abbott, Lyman

16.

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

Robert Byrne

17.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

18.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

19.

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

Moses, Robert

20.

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

Dorothy Parker

21.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

22.

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

Lawana Blackwell

23.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Morley, Christopher

25.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

26.

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

27.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

28.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

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

31.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

32.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

33.

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

Lewin, Roger

34.

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

35.

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

Rabbinical Saying

36.

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

Robert Orben

37.

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

38.

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

Dick Cavett

39.

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

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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

Peter Ustinov

43.

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

44.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

45.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

46.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Picasso, Pablo