Motivational Quotes

Children

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Children

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Dorothy Parker

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

10.

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.

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

16.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

17.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

18.

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

Dick Cavett

19.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Bruce Barton

23.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

24.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

32.

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

Nash, Ogden

33.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

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

Picasso, Pablo

36.

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

Mary MacCracken

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

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

42.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

43.

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

45.

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

46.

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

Waitley, Denis

47.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

48.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

49.

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

50.

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