Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Robert Byrne

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

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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.

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.

12.

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

13.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

15.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Dick Cavett

19.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

20.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

21.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

22.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

30.

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

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

34.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Gray, Thomas

38.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

39.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

40.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

41.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

42.

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

43.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

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

Daniel Raeburn

45.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

46.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

47.

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

Lewin, Roger

48.

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

49.

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

Watts, Isaac

50.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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