They say that the best sound in the world is the sound of children’s laughter, and a lot of parents will probably agree with that. Public figures, people of art, and even works of fiction have mentioned time and time again how special children are, and how their opinions and feelings should be treated the same way as those of adults. There are a lot of quotes about kids that keep reminding us about that.
In most cultures, children are considered to be the future, and you will find so many quotes about education and its importance for the younger generation. This is hard to argue with. Educating the younger generation is not only beneficial for them but helps in building a better future for the entire planet. That’s why it is also essential to explain the importance of education to children. Here, inspirational quotes for kids might come in handy, among other things. If presented correctly (and by that I mean without being condescending and actually explaining things to them), famous quotes by people they know and love, like their favorite writers or even superheroes, will motivate children to dream big and strive for their goals.
One thing we always have to keep in mind is that while parents love quotes that are very inspiring, posting them on your social media is not how you become a good parent. Always find time to spend with your children — talk to them, listen to their concerns, and teach them to find solutions. Remember that what may seem like a trifle to you can be your child’s biggest worry.
For this article, we collected a number of sayings about children and childhood. Do you have a favorite quote about children that inspired your parenting style or made you understand child psychology better? Share it with us in the comments below.
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“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
“Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” – George Carlin
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” — James Baldwin
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.”– H. Jackson Brown
“Teach your children they’re unique. That way, they won’t feel pressured to be like everybody else.” – Cindy Cashman
“Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.” – Denis Waitley
“If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown.” – Rajneesh
“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
“Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.” – Anne Frank
“We should all be inspired by children: they don’t care about fear and mistakes.” – Maxime Lagacé
“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.” – Karl Lagerfeld
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” — Robert Fulghum
“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
“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.” – Khaled Hosseini
“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
“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 Gowmon
“To every child—I dream of a world where you can laugh, dance, sing, learn, live in peace and be happy.” – Malala Yousafzai
“We’re all five-year-olds. We don’t know how to do this thing called life. Are you faking it?” – Byron Katie
“Children take a stand for everything that is possible because they are still in touch with that place inside where everything is possible.” – Vince Gowmon
“Our most important task as a nation is to make sure all our young people can achieve their dreams.” – Barack Obama
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”– Rabindranath Tagore
“Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.” – Isabel Allende
“The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”– Walt Disney
“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” — Billy Graham
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” — Franklin P. Jones
“I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!” — David Vitter
“It's the greatest poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” — Mother Teresa
“Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.”– Ron Wild
“In childhood, time is kind. A moment is swallowed whole, by senses open and able.” – Nicoletta Baumeister
“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.” – Bringhman Young
“Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives.” – Thomas Berry
“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
“Why try to explain miracle to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.” – Robery Brault
“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” — Stacia Tauscher
“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” — Ray L. Wilbur
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.” — Angela Schwindt
“Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.” — Nelson Mandela
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” — Orlando Aloysius Battista
“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other wings.” – Goeth
“To raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who will walk their own verdant, winding path.” – Nicolette Sowder
“When you are really mature, you will again become childlike. Then your life will again become fun. You will enjoy it, every bit of it you will not be serious. A deep laughter will spread all over your life. It will be more like a dance and less like business.” – Osho
“It’s not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.”– Jada Pinkett Smith
“When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.” – Mr. Rogers
“A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.” – Christopher Lasch
“Too much love never spoils children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence.” – Anthony Witham
“To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter." – PT Barnum
“Every child needs a parent, grandparent or friend who will say let’s go it’s time for an adventure.” – Penny Whitehouse
“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.” – Bill Ayers
“Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.”– Maralee McKee
“Children need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing the world around them.” – Teresa Belton
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” — Lady Bird Johnson
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” — Charles R. Swindoll
“If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!” — Dwight L. Moody
“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
“Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.”
“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 true connoisseurs, what’s precious to them has no price, only value.” – Bel Kaufman
“Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.” – Allen Klein
“It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness.” – L. R. Knost
“The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.”– David Hockney
“Children of any age flourish with options. Art should be mandatory at all ages.” – Donna Jo Massie
“Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!” – Chinonye J. Chidolue
“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!” – Charles Mingus
“If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!” – Wess Stafford
“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” – Kay Redfield Jamison
“We must teach our children to smell the earth, to taste the rain, to touch the wind, to see things grow, to hear the sun rise and night fall—to care.” – John Cleal
“Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves.” – Stephen Moss
“Children, no matter how gifted, can’t see far into the future, you know. To them, a year is almost a lifetime.” – John Saul
“Children more than ever, need opportunities to be in their bodies in the world—jumping rope, bicycling, stream hopping and fort building. It’s this engagement between limbs of the body and bones of the earth where true balance and centeredness emerge.” – David Sobel
“If we provide enough space and possibilities for moving freely, then the children will move as well as animals: skillfully, simply, securely, naturally.” – Dr. Emmi Pikler
“A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained.” — Lyman Abbott
“In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.”– Erma Bombeck
“A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice—especially when she’s taking a nap.”
“Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.” – C.S. Lewis
