Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

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

Rabbinical Saying

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

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

Moustakas, Clark

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

14.

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

Mary MacCracken

15.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

19.

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

Oscar Wilde

20.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

23.

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

Lawana Blackwell

24.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

28.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

29.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

34.

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

35.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

36.

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

37.

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

Robert Byrne

38.

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

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

Robert Orben

40.

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

Lewin, Roger

41.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

42.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

43.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

44.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

45.

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

Jameson, Anna

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

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

Parker, Dorothy

49.

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

Ruskin, John

50.

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

Plomp, John