These inspirational quotes about children remind us of our own childhoods and mile markers along the way to where we are now.
Children are our greatest blessings. Here is our collection of quotes about children that recognize the importance of how we raise our kids; through play, learning, and humor.
Favorite Children Quotes
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, and the other wings.
Hodding Carter
Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Rev Jesse Jackson
Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
Fred Rogers
Inspiring Kids Quotes
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Children see magic because they look for it.
Christopher Moore
By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that’s what they will have to give away.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.
Jess Lair
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Barbara Bush
While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
Each day of our lives, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
Children learn to smile from their parents.
Shinichi Suzuki
There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately, children of the stars.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Meaningful Children’s Quotes
These inspirational quotes about children have special significance and meaning.
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George Will
The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John F. Kennedy
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde
History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
Nelson Mandela
Our most important task as a nation is to make sure all our young people can achieve their dreams.
Barack Obama
It is not attention that the child is seeking but love.
Sigmund Freud
Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times.
Allen Klein
Children Quotes About Play
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Fred Rogers
Children see magic because they look for it.
Christopher Moore
And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling.
Shanti
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.
Carl Jung
When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.
Fred Rogers
A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.
Benjamin Spock
Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.
Diane Ackerman
If we want our kids to have happy, productive, moral lives, we must allow more time for play, not less.
Peter Gray
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.
Friedrich Froebel
Children learn as they play. More importantly, in play, children learn how to learn.
O. Fred Donaldson
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
Neil Gaiman
To every child – I dream of a world where you can laugh, dance, sing, learn, live in peace and be happy.
Malala Yousafzai
Children Quotes On Learning
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Albert Einstein
Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places that they could not imagine.
Yawar Baig
A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
Alfie Kohn
Children have to be educated, but they also have to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet
Don’t just teach your kids to read; teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
George Carlin
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman Read
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.
Maria Montessori
Funny Quotes About Kids
When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot – but I always found them.
Rodney Dangerfield
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Bette Davis
Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
David Frost
​​Having children is like living in a frat house- nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.
Ray Romano
Usually, the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.
Julia Roberts
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
To teenagers: straighten up your room first, then the world.
Jeff Jordan
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
Parenting Advice Quotes
These inspirational quotes about children take the viewpoint of parents.
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.
Ann Landers
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.
Sue Atkins
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold Hulburt
Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful, and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become.
Brooke Hampton
There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
Anne Lamott
Children do not need us to shape them. They need us to respond to who they are.
Naomi Aldort
As your kids grow up, they may forget what you said, but they won’t forget how you made them feel.
Kevin Heath
Words of Advice About Children
Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.
Ray Merritt
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher
Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow, for babies grow up, we’ve learned to our sorrow. So quiet down, cobwebs-dust, go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby, and babies don’t keep!
Ruth Hamilton
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
Children are like wet cement: whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Haim Ginott
Lessons Parents Learn
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones
Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said. Unknown
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
C.S. Lewis
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Khaled Hosseini
Short Kid Quotes
Children are our most valuable resource.
Herbert Hoover
Children see magic because they look for it.
Christopher Moore
Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead
Adults are just outdated children.
Dr. Seuss
Heartwarming Quotes About Children
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained.
Lyman Abbott
Each day of our lives, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then I believe we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what ‘good’ parenting means.
Fred Rogers
Compassionate Quotes
Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.
H. Jackson Brown
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
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
Awesome Quotes
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.
Jess Lair
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Yoda
Greatest Gifts for Children
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life but rather a legacy of character and faith.
Billy Graham
Safety and security don’t just happen; they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.
Nelson Mandela
It’s not about what you tell your children but how you show them how to live life.
Jada Pinkett Smith
I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams.
David Vitter
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