Motivational Quotes

Children

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

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

William Shakespeare

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

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

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

Sam Levenson

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Ovid

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

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

12.

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

Hunt, Leigh

13.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

15.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

16.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

18.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

20.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

21.

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

Wilmot, John

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

26.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

27.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

28.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

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

30.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

31.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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

33.

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

Abbott, Lyman

34.

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

Robert Orben

35.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

40.

It takes three to make a child.

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

41.

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

Morley, Christopher

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

49.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

50.

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