Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilmot, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Capp, Al

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Montessori, Maria

10.

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

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

12.

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

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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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Groucho Marx

17.

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

Wiesel, Elie

18.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

25.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

26.

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

Fran Lebowitz

27.

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

Robert Orben

28.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

Moses, Robert

31.

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

Dick Cavett

32.

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

33.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

34.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

38.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Wilmot, John

44.

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

Freud, Sigmund

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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