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40 Children Quotes All About Raising Kids

“Adults are just outdated children.”

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Inspirational Children Quotes
  • “Children are our most valuable resource.” –Herbert Hoover
  • “Children see magic because they look for it.” –Christopher Moore
  • “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” –Walt Streightiff
  • “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
  • “No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.” –Emma Goldman
  • “The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” –Ray L. Wilbur
  • “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Denis Waitley
  • “Children need models rather than critics.” –Joseph Joubert
  • “If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.” –Marian Wright Edelman


Funny Children Quotes
  • “Adults are just outdated children.” –Dr. Seuss
  • “Never have more children than you have car windows.” –Erma Bombeck
  • “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • “Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.” –Giacomo Leopardi
  • “Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.” –Unknown
  • “Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.” –Unknown
  • “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.” –Phyllis Diller
  • “What is a home without children? Quiet.” –Henny Youngman
  • “Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.” –David Frost
  • “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” –Phyllis Diller
Kid Quotes About Parenting
  • “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” –Henry Ward Beecher
  • “You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.” –Barbara Bush
  • “Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.” –Princess Diana
  • “The soul is healed by being with children.” –Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • “Children make your life important.” –Erma Bombeck
  • “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
  • “Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.” –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • “While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.” –Angela Schwindt
  • “The first happiness of a child is to know that he is loved.” –Don Bosco
  • “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” –Thomas Paine
Famous Children Quotes
  • “History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.” –Nelson Mandela
  • “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 continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams.” –David Vitter
  • “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” –Oscar Wilde
  • “We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.” –Harry Edwards
  • “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
  • “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” –Lady Bird Johnson
  • “Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.” –A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” –Margaret Mead
  • “Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.” –Anne Frank
  • “To every child – I dream of a world where you can laugh, dance, sing, learn, live in peace and be happy.” –Malala Yousafzai
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