Children Quotes

"A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone."

"My kids are very special; they can bring a lot of surprise."

"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child."

"A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time."

"I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them."

"I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself."

"The kids are always so passionate. I feel like they are our protectors. They care so much about recycling and climate change."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."

Maria Montessori

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

Margaret Mead

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."

"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me."

Fred Rogers

"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind."

Marva Collins

"The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind."

Maria Montessori

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

Frederick Douglass

"Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the time and the space and the materials to do their work."

Faith Ringgold

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic."

Henry Ward Beecher

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

Dr. Seuss

"War is not healthy for children and other living things."

Lorraine Schneider

"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."

Jess Lair

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

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."

Charles R. Swindoll

"What's done to children, they will do to society."

Karl Menninger