71+ Best Children Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Having child is an amazing blessing. As a parent, we enjoy spending time with our kids; loving and caring for them, nurturing, teaching, training, helping, encouraging and so much more. Inspirational having kids quotes will remind you how precious kids are and perfectly capture what it means to be a kid.

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Most Famous Children Quotes

A person’s a person, no matter how small. Dr. Seuss

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained. Lyman Abbott

A child is an uncut diamond. Austin O’Malley

Children are our most valuable resource. Herbert Hoover

Always kiss your children goodnight even if they’re already asleep. H. Jackson Brown, JR.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. John F. Kennedy

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

Children see magic because they look for it. Christopher Moore

Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors. Khaled Hosseini

Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history. Ray Merritt

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead

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.

All little girls should be told they are pretty. Marilyn Monroe

The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. Ralph Bus

Children are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee. David Frost

Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

The real magic wand is the child’s own mind. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Walt Streightiff

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment. Wess Stafford

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. Ellen Key

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

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

Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children. Princess Diana

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. Orlando Aloysius Battista

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning. Mr. Rogers

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. James Dobson

The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. Michael Jackson

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. John F. Kennedy

The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world. Lois Lowry

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

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Neil Gaiman

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. Ellen Key

Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older. Peter Pan

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

Children are mirrors, they reflect back to us all we say and do. Pam Leo

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries. 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 re invent your world for you. Susan Sarandon

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television. Erma Bombeck

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

Children need models rather than critics. Joseph Joubert

The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt

The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards  the things we live by and teach our children  are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings Walt Disney

Noble fathers have noble children. Euripides

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes. Wally Schirra

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. Rabindranath Tagore

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other wings. Goeth

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

Children are our most valuable resource. Herbert Hoover

It’s not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life. Jada Pinkett Smith

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

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

If you want children to continue dreaming to the moon and beyond, then dream with them, both by sharing your fervent dreams, and by diving heart first into their own. Vince Goemon