Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Baldwin, James

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

15.

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

Nash, Ogden

16.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

17.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

Abbott, Lyman

19.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

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

21.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

22.

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

Proverb, English

23.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

24.

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

Freud, Sigmund

25.

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

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

27.

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

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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

29.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Lewin, Roger

36.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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

38.

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

Peter Ustinov

39.

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

Angelou, Maya

40.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

41.

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

42.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

45.

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

46.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

47.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

48.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

49.

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

Picasso, Pablo

50.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse