Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Dick Cavett

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Ziglar, Zig

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

John J. Plomp

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

10.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

12.

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

Montessori, Maria

13.

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

Norman Douglas

14.

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

15.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

17.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

18.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

22.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

23.

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

Groucho Marx

24.

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

25.

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

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

27.

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

Moses, Robert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Capp, Al

32.

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

Proverb, English

33.

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

Hulbert, Harold

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

36.

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

John Gray

37.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

38.

It takes three to make a child.

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

39.

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

Robert Byrne

40.

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

Waitley, Denis

41.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

43.

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

44.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

45.

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

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

49.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

50.

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