Children Quotes

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
John W. Whitehead

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

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.
Rosaleen Dickson

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Dr. Haim Ginott

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

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

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.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Richard L. Evans

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility
Kate Douglas Wiggin

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad
Paul Smally

Once the children were in the house the air became more vivid and more heated; every object in the house grew more alive
Mary Gordon

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

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

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

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
P. J. O\'Rourke







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