Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Wilde, Oscar

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Fran Lebowitz

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Ovid

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.

10.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Mead, Margaret

13.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

14.

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

15.

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

Robert Orben

16.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

17.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

18.

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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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

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

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

John J. Plomp

22.

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

Dorothy Parker

23.

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

24.

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

Moses, Robert

25.

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

26.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

27.

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

Groucho Marx

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

31.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, English

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Edwards, Harry

38.

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

39.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

40.

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

41.

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

Phyllis Diller

42.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

43.

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

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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

45.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

46.

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

Wiesel, Elie

47.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig