Motivational Quotes

Children

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Curie, Madame Marie

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Morley, Christopher

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

14.

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

15.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

19.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

21.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

22.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

23.

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.

24.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Dick Cavett

28.

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

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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.

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

Peter Ustinov

32.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

33.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

34.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

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

Groucho Marx

37.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

43.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

47.

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

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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

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

Capp, Al

50.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June