Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Children. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Children Quotes And Sayings by 96 Authors including Graca Machel,Elizabeth Knox,P. J. O'rourke,Libby Houston,John Updike for you to enjoy and share.
In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic. -- Graca Machel
Children are uncivilized, so have a staggering power to harm, especially those people whose hearts need mending. In that house an unhappy child was too much rain on a high water table. I poured it on and the terrain liquefied. -- Elizabeth Knox
Kids are disorganized. -- P. J. O'rourke
[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months. -- Libby Houston
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. -- John Updike
Children are the keys of paradise. -- Eric Hoffer
Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while. -- Jim Butcher
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. -- Maria Montessori
Children are nature's flower and our future. They are the future fathers and mothers. They are our mind's adventure in the future. -- Debasish Mridha
Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
I love children. I've always loved children. -- Georgina Chapman
Children represent God's most generous gift to us. -- James Dobson
There were always children, Miss -- Colm Toibin
Children live life as a controlled experiment. -- Jennifer Senior
Children want to do what grownups do. -- Beverly Cleary
Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected. -- Pope Francis
Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Children are the greatest philosophers : the questions that children ask require the deepest of thoughts and the longest of reflections on life! -- Avijeet Das
Children bring chaos and clutter and an infinite potential for the future -- Dan Simmons
Kids are our future. -- Derek Jeter
Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life. -- Keith Haring
Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life. -- Ziggy Marley
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind. -- Queen Rania Of Jordan
Kids are anarchy writ large. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Children make your life important. -- Erma Bombeck
Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain. -- Maureen F. Mchugh
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be. -- Carolyn Haywood
Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children. -- Kimberly Quinn
Children are the great gamble. From the moment they are born, our helplessness increases. Instead of being ours to mould and shape after our best knowledge and endeavour, they are themselves. From their birth they are the centre of our lives, and the dangerous edge of existence. -- Josephine Hart
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
Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them. -- Jack Nicholson
You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent. -- Queen Victoria
Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them. -- Anthony Browne
Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention. -- Hillary Clinton
Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint. -- Gregory Maguire
Children are remarkable creatures, hurtling through savage landscapes of sudden laughter and sharp heartbreaks. -- Lyndsay Faye
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. -- Aldous Huxley
Children are for people who can't have dogs. -- Jerry Smith
We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts. -- Dada Vaswani
Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it. -- Jennifer L. Holm
The first victims are always the children. -- Loung Ung
Kids ... Can't live with 'em ... Can't shoot 'em! -- Burgess Meredith
Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life ... -- Hillary Clinton
Children are gleeful barbarians. -- Joe Morgenstern
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
All children are my children. -- Nana Mouskouri
While they are kids, my children must do as I say. -- Andrea Bocelli
I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest. -- Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever. -- Nikita Dudani
Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment. -- Jacqueline Woodson
Children love me, dammit! -- Kurt Angle
Children are our greatest untapped resource. -- Dalai Lama
Children do the best they can, with the resources they have! -- Iben Dissing Sandahl
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. -- John W. Whitehead
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves. -- Holly Black
When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back. -- Celine Dion
Kids are pretty brutal. -- Jesse Mccartney
Children give life a reason to be - they make life. -- Len Goodman
Children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. -- Nan Fairbrother
Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the charlatan. -- Wess Stafford
Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them. -- Ann Landers
Kids are natural scientists. -- Alan Alda
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Children are like poems. They're beautiful
to their creators
but to others they're just silly and fucking annoying. -- Doug Stanhope
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality. -- Camille Paglia
Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children. -- J.d. Salinger
Children can change the world. -- Jane Goodall
Children playing at war. Children who don't deserve to die, but are too foolish to live. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. -- Orson Scott Card
Kids need to get answers from humans who love them. -- Neal Stephenson
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. -- Jean De La Bruyere
For official purposes, these children do not exist. -- Robert Muchamore
I love my children very much. -- Montel Williams
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. -- Toni Morrison
Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource. -- Ziggy Marley
I give the children education. -- Jackie Chan
Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest. -- Maurice Sendak
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. -- Francis Bacon
Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters. -- Marian Wright Edelman
I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future. -- Nana Mouskouri
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. -- Thomas Szasz
Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making. -- Dan Pearce
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children. -- Wallace Shawn
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. -- James Russell Lowell
Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion. -- Anthony Lane
Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits. -- Rhea Perlman
Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride! -- Kathleen Madigan
World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire
-- Nelly Sachs
I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves. -- Maya Rudolph
World is brighter with the happiness of children. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand. -- Cecelia Ahern
Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids. -- Rick Riordan
Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers. -- Friedrich Frobel
Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Children are remarkably cruel in their candor. In their cruelty, they are innocent -- Rose Christo
They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. -- Cornelia Funke
Children are the soul sucking worst. -- Tina Fey
Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal. -- Jonathan Kozol
