Children Quotes

Some Children quotes and sayings. You will love these quotes as much as you love children. Some of these children quotes are meant for parents who would do good by following some of the wise advice:

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Children need models more than they need critics.
~Joseph Joubert

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
~Richard L. Evans

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.
~Anon

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant–and let the air out of the tires.
~ Dorothy Parker

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
~Plato

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
~ Mary MacCracken

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children’s eyes.
~Lawana Blackwell

Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.
~Unknown Author

Be gentle with the young.
~Juvenal

Why is it that a child’s death amounts to a tragedy, but the death of millions is merely a statistic?
~Patrick McDonald..

Yes this is very True. Child death is still a very real nightmare that many developing countries endure. Are we doing enough about it, or we continue to read it as a statistics in some report? Do share or tweet this particular quote.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
~Agatha Christie

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
~Emma Goldman

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
~John J. Plomp

Every child born, has innate goodness.
~Chinese Proverbs

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

Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
~Maria Montessori

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant–and let the air out of the tires.
~Dorothy Parker

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun.
~Jean Paul Richter

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural
~ Alastair Reid

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
~Bruce Barton

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
~Lady Bird Johnson

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
~Isadora Duncan

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
~Bill Watterson

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
~Ray L. Wilbur

Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world
~ Maria Montessori

Children are our most valuable natural resource
~ Herbert Hoover

Children are the bridge to heaven.
~Persian Proverb

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
~Bill Cosby

Life, love, and laughter – what priceless gifts to give our children.
~Phyllis Dryden

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.
~Kate Douglas Wiggin

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
~Anna Quindlen

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~ James Arthur Baldwin.. So Parents should take care what the Children sees in them as they are the ones they imitate the most

Childhood is the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
~Ambrose Bierce

A mother understands what a child does not say.
~Unknown Author

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
~Anatole Broyard

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
~Barbara Bush

Children are the keys of paradise.
~ Eric Hoffer

If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
~P.D. James

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
~Abigail Van Buren

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