Motivational Quotes

Children

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Children

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John J. Plomp

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

10.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

11.

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

Groucho Marx

12.

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

13.

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

Bombeck, Erma

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

17.

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

Groucho Marx

18.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

19.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

23.

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.

24.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

25.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

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

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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

Phyllis Diller

29.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

32.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

33.

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

Jameson, Anna

34.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Bruce Barton

38.

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

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Picasso, Pablo

41.

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

42.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

43.

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

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

Norman Douglas

45.

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

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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

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb, English