Children Quotes

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

James Baldwin

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."

Neil Postman

"Children are our most valuable resource."

Herbert Hoover

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."

Harold Hulbert

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

Stacia Tauscher

"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."

Haim Ginott

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."

Kahlil Gibran

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Pablo Picasso

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."

Sophocles

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."

Abigail Van Buren

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher

"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."

Paulo Coelho

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

William Makepeace Thackeray

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."

Louis Pasteur

"Children are the priority. Change is the reality. Collaboration is the strategy."

Judith Billings

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

Ray L. Wilbur

"Children make you want to start life over."

Muhammad Ali

"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."

John Trainer

"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."

Khaled Hosseini

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

Norman Douglas

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do."

Jean de La Bruyère

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."