Positive Quotes About Children

The verse and quotes about children on this page are all positive, inspirational words of wisdom and love.

My three children have always been the most important thing in my life and my greatest blessing. Having my children at a young age means that I am now lucky enough to enjoy the experience of all my children becoming parents, grandchildren so far are five girls and two boys, from a teenager to the latest addition in February 2012. The abundance of love and joy that I have in my life with all of these treasures is amazing.

The cute illustrations on this page are all by multi-talented artist Sandra Reeves.

Quotes about children are listed alphabetically on authors surname. Unknown author quotes about children are at the bottom of the page.

Jacob Abbott 1803 - 1879

A child can ask a thousand questions
that the wisest man cannot answer.

Muhammad Ali 1942

Children make you want to start life over.

Henri Frederic Amiel 1821 - 1881

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Aristotle 384BC - 322BC

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887

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

Arlene Benedict

To a child's ear, 'Mother' is magic in any language.

W. E. B. Du Bois  1868 - 1963

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

Carol Bowman 1950

Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.

Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797

Example is the school of mankind,
and they will learn at no other.

George Carlin 1937 - 2008

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

Quotes About Children To Uplift Your Spirit

Charles S. Caverley 1831 - 1884

I love to gaze upon a child...
a young bud bursting into blossom.

Pablo Casals 1876 - 1973

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Rosaleen Dickson

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love.
Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky  1821 - 1881

The soul is healed by being with children.

Frederick Douglas 1818 - 1895

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

Wayne Dyer 1940

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you,
not for you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Euripides 480BC - 406BC

All men know their children mean more than life.

Kahlil Gibran 1884 - 1931

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.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
for they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their soul,
for their soul belongs in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite and he bends you with his might that his arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness,
for even as he loves the arrow that flies,
so he loves also the bow that is stable.

Haim Ginott 1922 - 1973

Children are like wet cement
whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 - 1832

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

Graham Greene 1904 - 1991

There is always one moment in childhood
when the door opens and lets the future in.

Eric Hoffer 1902 - 1983

Children are the keys of paradise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 - 1894

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world
is done by children.

Joe Houldsworth

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

Aldous Huxley 1894 - 1963

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Lady Bird Johnson  1912 - 2007

Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.

Juvenal  55 - 127

Be gentle with the young.

Bel Kaufman 1911

Children are the true connoisseurs,
what's precious to them has no price, only value.

Montague Keen 1925 - 2004

The greatest gift you can give your children is...
your love and your time.

John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963  Quotes About Children

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

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti  1895 - 1986 

Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.

Dalai Lama 1935

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

Penelope Leach 1937

Loving a child is a circular business...
the more you give, the more you get,
the more you get, the more you give.

Alan Jay Lerner 1918 - 1986

Stay close to the young...
and a little rubs off.

Adam McLeod

As children we see life only in the present moment. Children feel a certain way and react intuitively in the here and now. They have not yet developed an analytical process which interfers with intuition.

Marilyn Monroe 1926 - 1962

All little girls should be told they are pretty.

Positive Quotes About Children

Native American Quotes About Children

Children are a gift from the heavens.

The ones that matter most are the children.
They are true human beings.

Jason Nelson

I love being around children. I'm deeply moved and inspired by their innocence. They have fresher, clearer eyes to see the world with unconditional love because of the natural spirituality they were born with.

Kitara Nishida 1870 - 1945

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child,
I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Dorothy Nolte 1924 - 2005

Children learn what they live.
If a child lives with criticism... he learns to condemn.
If he lives with hostility... he learns to fight.
If he lives with ridicule... he learns to be shy.
If he lives with shame... he learns to be guilty.
If he lives with tolerance... he learns confidence.
If he lives with praise... he learns to appreciate.
If he lives with fairness... he learns about justice

Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973

Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Francois Rabelais 1494 - 1553

A child is not a vase to be filled,
but a fire to be lit.

Susan Sarandon 1946

Children re-invent your world for you.

Angela Schwindt

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

Walt Streightiff

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

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 - 1941

Every child comes with a message...
that God is not yet discouraged by man.

Stacia Tauscher

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is someone today.

Donald Trump 1946

The best thing I've done?
Well, I've created four beautiful children.

Neale Donald Walsch 1943 Quotes About Children

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think.
When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but rather, how to get to their own truth.

Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900

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

Unknown Author Quotes About Children

All children behave as well as they are treated.

Children are a bridge to heaven.

Children are a handful sometimes.
A heart-full all the time.

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.

Children are poor men's riches.

Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.

Give me a child for the first seven years
and you may do what you want with him afterwards.

Human Beings grow best with encouragement and Love.
Today, let every word you speak
(to yourself and others) be filled with kindness.

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.

The friendship of a child is the brightest gem,
set upon the circlet of society.

The heart of a child is like that of Buddha.

The most precious jewels you'll ever have around your neck are...
the arms of your children.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors...
We borrow it from our children.

I hope you have enjoyed reading these quotes about children, there are more relevant quotes about children on the baby quotes page.

Photo: In my early years I lived next door to my paternal grandparents. My grandmother Evelyn died when I was only six, so it was good to be so close to her for that short time, as I have fond memories of her.

This photo of us, with my brother David, was taken in 1962 and has always been a treasured family photo. It's just so natural, with us all scruffy and dirty from playing in the garden.

Interestingly, I always thought it was great living next door to my grandparents and as my grandchildren came along I hoped that I could do the same one day. I now live next door to three of my grandchildren (law of attraction working in my life!)

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