Motivational Quotes

Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Parker, Dorothy

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Baldwin, James

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

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

Hulbert, Harold

12.

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

13.

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

Sam Levenson

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Ball, Lucille

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Robert Byrne

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

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

25.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

26.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

27.

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

Moses, Robert

28.

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

Proverb, English

29.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

30.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

31.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

32.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

33.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

34.

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

35.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

36.

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

37.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

40.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

41.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

42.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

43.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

44.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

45.

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

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

Phyllis Diller

47.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

48.

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

Morley, Christopher

49.

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