Thoughts of Kids Quotes Or Children Quotes in English

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.

- Nelson Mandela

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

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

A child can teach an adult three things… To be happy for no reason. To always be busy with something. And to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

- Paulo Coelho Quotation

Grown-up never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Facing a mirror you see merely you own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

- Daniel Raeburn

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

- Fran Lebowitz

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity.  Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

- George Washington Carver

You don't pay back your parents.  You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's left a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you posses or are possessed by one.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Do You call life a bad job? Never! we've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Kids Thought in English

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Robert A. Heinlein

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

- Pablo Picasso

Teach your children they’re unique. That way, they won’t feel pressured to be like everybody else.

- A Quotation From Cindy Cashman

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

- Kahlil Gibran

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

- Aristotle

Our most important task as a nation is to make sure all our young people can achieve their dreams.

- Barack Obama

Children need models rather than critics.

- Joseph Joubert

Children make your life important.

- Erma Bombeck

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

What is a home without children?

Quiet.

- Henny Youngman

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

- Llawana Blackwell

Adults are just outdated children.

- Dr. Seuss

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

- Plato

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

- Leo J. Burke

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

-  Mary MacCracken

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

- Norman Douglas

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

- W.E.B. Du Bois

Children are the only form of immortality  that we can be sure of.

- Peter Ustinov

Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.

- Diane Ackerman

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

- Maria Montessori

If a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die.

- Moroccan Proverb

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

- Rabbinical Saying

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

Children are all foreigners.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

- George Bernard Shaw

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

- Robert Orben

All little girls should be told they are pretty.

- Marilyn Monroe

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

- Robertson Davies

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

- Robert Orben

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

- Don Herold

When do children cry? When they want something. Adults are no different.

- Naval Ravikant

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

- William Shakespeare

Children see magic because they look for it.

- Christopher Moore

Adults follow paths. Children explore.

- Neil Gaiman

Never underestimate a child’s ability to get into more trouble.

- Martin Mull

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Jada Pinkett Smith

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too.

- Marian Wright Edelman

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Children are our most valuable resource.

- Herbert Hoover

Our children change us… whether they live or not.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Children will listen to you after they feel listened to.

- Jane Nelsen

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

- Bill Watterson

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

- Brue Barton

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

- Clarence Darrow

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

Dick Cavett

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.

- Dorothy Parker

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

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A child of five would understand this.  Send someone to fetch a child of five.

- Groucho Marx

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

- Bill Cosby

My mother loved children  - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift… Let it be enthusiasm.

- Bruce Barton

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Hodding Carter

Children don’t need “meaning” to get up in the morning. Life is the meaning.

- Naval Ravikant

The first half of our lives is spoiled by our parents, and the last half by our children.

- Jennifer James

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving then more to avoid confrontation.

- John Gray

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

- John J. Plomp

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

- King Edward VIII

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

- Lawana Blackwell

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

- Phyllis Diller *

Our job is not to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. Our job is to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

- L.R. Knost

Kindness to children. Love for children. Goodness to children… These are the only investments that never fail.

- Henry David Thoreau

Tell me what’s more important than being present for children and listening to them. I’ll wait.

- Maxime Lagace

Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.

- Anne Frank

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

- Robert Byrne

I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.

- Child Quotes by Anne Lamott

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

- Sam Levenson

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to crate them and then fail them was surely damnation.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

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

- James Baldwin

Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.

- Unknown

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

- Richard Dawkins

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‘Why?’ ceaselessly.

- John C. Maxwell

Seven things every child needs to hear: I love you, I’m proud of you, I’m sorry, I forgive you, I’m listening. This is your responsibility. You have what it takes to succeed.

- Sherrie Campbell

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

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

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

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

- Maria Montessori

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

- Oscar Wilde

One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

- Malala Yousafzai

You know who’s going to build that better world? It’s the youth. Children will do things that are now considered impossible.

- Kacey McCallister

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

- P. J. O'Rourke

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

There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

- Frank A. Clark

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

When kids hit 1 year old, it’s like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

- Johnny Depp

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

- Child Thought by Garrison Keillor

Observe your children closely: they have often fundamental approaches and answers to the mysteries of life which we have lost as adults.

- Robert Muller