Motivational Quotes

Children

The child is the father of the man.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

Dick Cavett

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

10.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

11.

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

John J. Plomp

12.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

13.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

14.

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

Crane, Monta

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

20.

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

Ball, Lucille

21.

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

King Edward VIII

22.

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

Baldwin, James

23.

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

24.

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

Norman Douglas

25.

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

Robert Byrne

26.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

27.

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

28.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

29.

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

30.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

31.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

32.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

33.

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

34.

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

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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

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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

37.

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

Wiesel, Elie

38.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

39.

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

Mead, Margaret

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

41.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

46.

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.

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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

48.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

49.

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

50.

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