Children Quotes: Inspiring and Heartwarming Sayings about Kids

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"The soul is healed by being with children"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

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

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Adults are obsolete children"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

Mel Gibson, Actor

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Your children need your presence more than your presents"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"Our children's children will hear a good story"

Richard Adams, Clergyman

"My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"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., Minister

"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry"

Democritus, Philosopher

"Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

"To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone"

Earl Warren, Judge

"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

Joseph Priestley, Scientist

"One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned"

Judith Viorst, Author

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