Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

Groucho Marx

11.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

12.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

13.

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

Morley, Christopher

14.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

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

Robert Orben

16.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

19.

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

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

23.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

26.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

27.

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

Capp, Al

28.

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

Montessori, Maria

29.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

30.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

31.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

32.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

35.

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

36.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

37.

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

38.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

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

Ball, Lucille

40.

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

41.

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

Plomp, John

42.

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

43.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

44.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

45.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

46.

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

47.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

48.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

49.

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

Fran Lebowitz

50.

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.