Children Quotes

"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

Pablo Casals

"Children need models rather than critics."

Joseph Joubert

"Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels."

"Every child begins the world again."

"Children are born true scientists."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter."

Francis Bacon

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

Colette

"Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price, only value."

Bel Kaufman

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."

Walt Streightiff

"Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun."

Mignon McLaughlin

"Children are the living jewels dropped unstained from heaven."

Robert Pollok

"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky."

Fran Lebowitz

"I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us."

Charles Dickens

"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."

William Stafford

"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."

Roy L. Smith

"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."

Bill Vaughan

"You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts."

Kahlil Gibran

“Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource: the minds of our children.”

“I never met a kid I liked.”

“We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens.”

“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.”

“Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

“To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.”

“Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.”

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