Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

13.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

17.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

18.

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

Robert Orben

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

21.

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

John J. Plomp

22.

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

Capp, Al

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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

24.

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

Robert Orben

25.

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

Jameson, Anna

26.

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

Hunt, Leigh

27.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

28.

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

29.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

30.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

31.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

33.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

34.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Bible

40.

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

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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

42.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

43.

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

44.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Groucho Marx