Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Mary MacCracken

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

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

11.

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

Abbott, Lyman

12.

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

13.

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

Lawana Blackwell

14.

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

Angelou, Maya

15.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

16.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

17.

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

Picasso, Pablo

18.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

19.

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

Watts, Isaac

20.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

21.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

22.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

23.

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

Groucho Marx

24.

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

25.

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

Montessori, Maria

26.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

27.

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

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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

29.

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

30.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

33.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, English

37.

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

Bombeck, Erma

38.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

39.

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

40.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

44.

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

45.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

46.

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

47.

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

Kraus, Karl

48.

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

Dick Cavett

49.

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

50.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.