204 Children Quotes to Inspire and Empower

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Famous Children Quotes

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. — Maria Montessori

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. — Desmond Tutu

Children reinvent your world for you. — Susan Sarandon

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource. — Herbert Hoover

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. — John F. Kennedy

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. — Bob Hope

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. — Dr. Seuss

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. — Dr. James Dobson

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. — Phyllis Diller

A better world begins with our children. Our boys and, crucially, our girls. — Ursula von der Leyen

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future. — Jackie Kennedy

Children are the future of the country and the hope of the Chinese nation. — Xi Jinping

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

Short Children Quotes

  • It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. — Frederick Douglass
  • Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
  • Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
  • To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori
  • A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
  • What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow. — Lev S. Vygotsky
  • Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. — W. E. B. Du Bois
  • In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves. — Ann Landers
  • Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her. — Urie Bronfenbrenner
  • Play is the work of the child. — Maria Montessori

Children Image Quotes

The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoevsky quote

The soul is healed by being with children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else. - Ann Landers quote

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else. — Ann Landers

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society. - Michio Kaku quote

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society. — Michio Kaku

Children and drunks always speak the truth. - Proverbs quote

Children and drunks always speak the truth. — Proverbs

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. - Marva Collins quote

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. — Marva Collins

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit. - Chinmayananda Saraswati quote

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. - Maya Angelou quote

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. — Maya Angelou

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence. - Jerome Bruner quote

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence. — Jerome Bruner

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - American Indian Proverbs quote

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. — American Indian Proverbs

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children. - Nelson Mandela quote

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children. — Nelson Mandela

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. - P. J. O'Rourke quote

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. — P. J. O'Rourke

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir quote

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. - George Bernard Shaw quote

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. — George Bernard Shaw

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo quote

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky - William P. Young quote

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young

Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson quote

Your children need your presence more than your presents. — Jesse Jackson

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. - J. H. Oldham quote

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. — J. H. Oldham

Children see magic because they look for it. - Christopher Moore quote

Children see magic because they look for it. — Christopher Moore

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. - William Makepeace Thackeray quote

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Children quote Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to questio
Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

Inspirational Children's Quotes

Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts! — Oral Roberts

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. — George Carlin

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers. — Jacque Fresco

Children quote While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. — T. S. Eliot

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. — Walt Disney

Children quote A child can teach an adult three things: To be happy for no reason, to always be curious, to fight t
A child can teach an adult three things: To be happy for no reason, to always be curious, to fight tirelessly for something.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony. — Mem Fox

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman. — Sushmita Sen

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are! - Lewis Carroll

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are! — Lewis Carroll

Children's Quotes

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month. — Lewis Grizzard

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. — Phyllis Diller

A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action. — Lev S. Vygotsky

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

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. . . — Amilcar Cabral

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways. — Saint John Chrysostom

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori

Children quote Once you're grown up you can't come back.
Once you're grown up you can't come back.

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. — Gary Smalley

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test. — Charlotte Mason

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. — Maria Montessori

What Is A Child Quotes

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. — Virginia Satir

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 Frobel

Children quote Dont handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Dont handicap your children by making their lives easy.

In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you. — Martin Buber

We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy. — Desmond Tutu

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other? — Mother Teresa

What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature. — Pierre Trudeau

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. — Louis L'Amour

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. — J. B. Priestley

Child Day Quotes

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. — Osho

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. - Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. — Thomas Paine

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. — Agatha Christie

Children quote To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... t
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to leave the world a better place... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama. — Sonia Sanchez

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents. — Jamie Oliver

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. — Charles Dickens

Children quote Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth

'You're Dionysus,' I said. 'The god of wine.' Mr. D rolled his eyes. 'What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say "Well duh!"?' 'Y-yes, Mr. D.' 'Then, "Well, duh!" Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?' 'You're a god.' 'Yes, child.' 'A god. You.' — Rick Riordan

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. — Alden Nowlan

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. — Jane D. Hull

When It Comes To My Child Quotes

The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period. — Carolyn Murphy

I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of. — Elizabeth Crook

A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time. — Patricia Piccinini

Children quote If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much mon
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven't figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships. — Drew Barrymore

Your Children Quotes

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. — Crazy Horse

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

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. — Napoleon Hill

Children quote Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. — Unknown

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. — Theodore Roosevelt

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life. — Nancy Reagan

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying. — Audre Lorde

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live — Julius Nyerere

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. — Chinese Proverbs

God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry? — Saint Francis de Sales

Having Children Quotes

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves. — Jean Piaget

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists — Jean Piaget

If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake. — Ruth Graham

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England. — James Connolly

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. — Jean Piaget

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army. — Robert E. Lee

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. — Marianne Williamson

One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today. — Kenny Chesney

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. — Geronimo

My Children Quotes

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. — Marie Antoinette

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad. — Gary Smalley

Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever. — Chief Joseph

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others. — Nel Noddings

Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men. — George Michael

Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody. — Whitney M. Young

Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience. — Benedict of Nursia

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. — A. A. Milne

Our Children Quotes

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. — Ronald Reagan

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core. — Maria Montessori

I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.” — Afeni Shakur

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons. — Saddam Hussein

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. — Albert Einstein

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children — Chief Seattle

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object — Magda Gerber

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. - Charles R. Swindoll

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. — Charles R. Swindoll

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance! — James Monroe

Teaching Children Quotes

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. — Carol S. Dweck

Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him . In fact, that little being who depends on you so much , makes you also to have a huge dependence on him. — Neymar

We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else — William Glasser

I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children. — Dolores Huerta

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it. — Rudolf Dreikurs

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. — Richard Dawkins

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly. — Erma Bombeck

When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them. — Saint John Chrysostom

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai

Growing Children Quotes

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult. — Maria Montessori

In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air. — Charlotte Mason

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. — Charlotte Mason

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. — Sting

I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to. — Magda Gerber

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am. - Roger Moore

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am. — Roger Moore

The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee. — Edna Lewis

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. — Keith Richards

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson

Adult Children Quotes

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. — Donald Woods Winnicott

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults. — Melanie Klein

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. — Erik Erikson

In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. — Seymour Papert

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline. — Haim Ginott

Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence. — Maria Montessori

You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited. — John Henrik Clarke

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

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain. — Alan Turing

Young Children Quotes

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. — Erik Erikson

When you are so full of sorrow that you can't walk, can't cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will cover the world, think about the awakening of a young child. — Omar Khayyam

Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide. — Lilian Katz

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. — Thomas Szasz

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline. — Jackie Chan

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. — Temple Grandin

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it. — Maria Montessori

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives. — Charles Hamilton Houston

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. — P. J. O'Rourke

Children Learning Quotes

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein

Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better. — Magda Gerber

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life? — Jean Piaget

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home. — Susanna Wesley

I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild. — Albert Hofmann

Children learn to smile from their parents. - Shinichi Suzuki

Children learn to smile from their parents. — Shinichi Suzuki

I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. — Leila Khaled

Learning is never done without errors and defeat. — Vladimir Lenin

You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done. — Sanford Meisner

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions. — Alfie Kohn

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More Children Quotes

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children. - Ricky Skaggs quote

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children. — Ricky Skaggs

All of our dreams can come true... - Walt Disney quote

All of our dreams can come true... — Walt Disney

Repentance is for little children. - Adolf Eichmann quote

Repentance is for little children. — Adolf Eichmann

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. - Lewis Carroll quote

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. — Lewis Carroll

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw quote

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. — George Bernard Shaw

Rock is my child and my grandfather. - Chuck Berry quote

Rock is my child and my grandfather. — Chuck Berry

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree. - Elizabeth George Speare quote

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree. — Elizabeth George Speare

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. quote

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. - Roald Dahl quote

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. - Kahlil Gibran quote

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. — Kahlil Gibran

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child. - Andrew Murray quote

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child. — Andrew Murray

Children are the anchors of a mother's life. - Sophocles quote

Children are the anchors of a mother's life. — Sophocles

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. - Bobby Sands quote

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. — Bobby Sands

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children. - John Green quote

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children. — John Green

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all. - Liam Neeson quote

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all. — Liam Neeson

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. - Kofi Annan quote

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. — Kofi Annan

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. - Anne Sullivan Macy quote

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. — Anne Sullivan Macy

The only international language in the world is a child's cry. - Eglantyne Jebb quote

The only international language in the world is a child's cry. — Eglantyne Jebb

In Conclusion

These quotes also shed light on the limitless potential of children. They inspire us to believe in their abilities and to encourage their curiosity, creativity, and imagination. Quotes about children often emphasize the power of education and its role in shaping their future. They remind us that children are the hope for a brighter tomorrow and that investing in their growth and development is essential for building a better society. Quotes about children resonate with parents, educators, and caregivers, reminding us of the profound impact we have on their lives and the responsibility we bear in nurturing them.

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