Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

1.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

3.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

4.

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

Ball, Lucille

5.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

6.

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

7.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

8.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

9.

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

10.

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

Moustakas, Clark

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

13.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

17.

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

Edwards, Harry

18.

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

Robert Byrne

19.

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

Plomp, John

20.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

21.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

22.

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

23.

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

24.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

25.

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

Bruce Barton

26.

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

Dorothy Parker

27.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Dick Cavett

29.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

30.

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

Mary MacCracken

31.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

32.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

33.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

34.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

35.

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

36.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

37.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

38.

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

Angelou, Maya

39.

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

Robert Orben

40.

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

41.

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

Fran Lebowitz

42.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

43.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

48.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

49.

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

Abbott, Lyman

50.

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.