Children Quotes

A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.

~ Bertrand Russell

Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.

~ Nel Noddings

Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests

~ Laurie E. Rozakis

Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.

~ Paul Gitwaza

Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person’s life must remain private for the preservation of one’s sanity is almost frivolous.

~ Aysha Taryam

I sense him smiling and laughing and looking at me with eyes of a thousand aborted children coming back to rightfully claim their life, to claim the earth.

~ A.p. Sweet

One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur.

~ Steve Maraboli

Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child’s insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.

~ M.f.k. Fisher

You may give them your love but not your thougts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

~ Kahlil Gibran

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.

~ Bell Hooks

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The Child is the Alpha and the Omega of a parent’s happiness.

~ Amit Abraham

Jake shrugged, in the way that only nine-year-old children can manage -- and usually male children at that, girls not being permitted the same kind of insouciance.

~ Marie Brennan

Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.

~ Clifford Cohen

A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good.

~ Vincent Carrella

There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.

~ Bell Hooks

It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with one hand we clingTo the familiar things we call our own,And with the other, resolute of will,Grope in the dark for what the day will bring

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.

~ Ron Fournier

However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world. It's those unhappy, unwanted children, who then grew into angry adults, who have caused the great majority of humankind's miseries. They are the ones who make states feel feral; streets dangerous; relationships violent.

~ Caitlin Moran

Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination. Never stop playing, and never stop imagining!

~ Carmela Dutra

Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.

~ Shannon L. Alder

That's the funny thing about children. When they were around, you wanted peace and quiet. A mere moment to yourself. You felt absolutely desperate to go more than three minutes without hearing the word Moooooooom echoing throughout the house. To go to the bathroom or - if luck was really on your side - to take an uninterrupted shower. Yet, when they were absent, no matter how infrequently that happened, it felt as though someone had amputated your limb and left a stinging open wound in its place. And you craved them like a cold beer on a blistering summer day.

~ Emily Liebert

To receive children’s love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available.

~ Dennis Prager

Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people; rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half those new people we go on to create are also women - presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making new people. And so it will go on and on...

~ Caitlin Moran

Real gases behaved like ideal gases as long as they remained in stable conditions. When the environment changed, either with increased temperature or mounting pressure, they began to deviate from their regular nature and at some point, crossed over to the less-than-ideal state. If deviating form perfection was the law of nature, why were children expected to be perfect in an imperfect world?

~ Indu Muralidharan

Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Children observe everything with caution.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Children are great observers.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I want you to be careful in this world. My heart is wrapped up in you.

~ Jeff Zentner

Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”“No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!

~ Kellyn Roth

If walking into the responsibility of caring for eighteen children was difficult, walking out on that responsibility was almost impossible. The children had become a constant presence, little spinning tops that splattered joy onto everyone they bumped into.

~ Conor Grennan

Down vith children! Do them in!Boil their bones and fry their skin!Bish them, sqvish them, bash them, mash them!Brrreak them, shake them, slash them, smash them!Offer chocs vith magic powder!Say “Eat up!” then say it louder.Crrram them full of sticky eats,Send them home still guzzling sveets.And in the morning little foolsGo marching off to separate schools.A girl feels sick and goes all pale.She yells, “Hey look! I've grrrown a tail!”A boy who's standing next to herScreams, “Help! I think I'm grrrowing fur!” Another shouts, “Vee look like frrreaks!There's viskers growing on our cheeks!”A boy who vos extremely tallCries out, “Vot's wrong? I'm grrrowing small!”Four tiny legs begin to sprrroutFrom everybody rrround about.And all at vunce, all in a trrrice,There are no children! Only MICE!

~ Roald Dahl

Because they know that people will be kinder to a child who smiles.

~ François Lelord

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

~ Truman Capote

Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.” Pastel Orphans

~ Gemma Liviero

Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can’t do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.

~ Caroline Kennedy

Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children.

~ Himmilicious